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Claudette Colvin Important Facts

▪ At the age of 15 Claudette refused to give up her seat on a bus, almost 9 months before the Boycott ▪ Claudette was a member of the NAACP ▪ The NAACP didn’t think that a teenager would be a good Icon because They didn’t think teenagers were reliable ▪ Some people believed that Colvin would have been a better representation of the movement due to that its followers were "young people and often more than 50 percent women" How Did They Understand The Common Good

▪ Colvin had been a member of the NAACP but alongside that she was at the time learning about black history. “It felt like was on one side pushing me down, and was on the other side of me pushing me down. I couldn't get up." Colvin felt a connection with what she was doing along with being educated in her constitutional rights which she explained at time of arrest, “I'd paid my fare and it’s my constitutional right.” Being knowledgeable about the black leaders of the past she made her decision to fight and stand up for what was right, even if it meant going to jail. At the age of 15 she had tried to stand up for the rights of people all over the united states. Why did they serve

Colvin served for her rights. A simple yet worthy cause to say the least. While women had been standing up for years their cases were all quietly taken care of. Colvin's was the first that took on some attention. At the time in her school, they had been talking about black history. Leaders of the past andActivists and such. Talking about and all the things that they got taken away from them. In her mind she was being taught about all the oppression they were being put through. How Far Were They Willing to go to Make a Difference

▪ Colvin was willing to go as far as necessary to get the point across and stand up for her freedoms. She went to jail standing for what was right. In the end even though Colvin never got the recognition she deserved she put her future and her life at risk just to stand for the very thing all people deserve. Bibliography

▪ “Claudette Colvin.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 2 Mar. 2020, www.biography.com/activist/claudette-colvin. ▪ Adler, Margot, and Phillip Hoose. “Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin.” NPR, NPR, 15 Mar. 2009, www..org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was- claudette-colvin.