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Profound Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement

On March 2, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for not giving her seat on the bus to a white woman. This action was nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat up to a white man, which was a catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.  It […]

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