Claudette Colvin – unsung Heroine of Black America –
Almost everyone has heard of Rosa Parks. The name Claudette Colvin remains almost unknown, except by inhabitants of the King Hill neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama. Go there and say her name and residents will proudly tell you, “she was the first.” In 1955, Claudette was a fifteen-year-old “A” student at Montgomery’s Booker T Washington High […]
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