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African American Heritage Week: Claudette Colvin
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The story of Rosa Parks' famous refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott, is widely known. However, lesser known is the story of Claudette Colvin, the first to stand up against bus segregation-- by sitting down. Colvin was born in 1939, but was raised by a great aunt and uncle in a poor district of Montgomery, Alabama. She attended Booker T. ... ...more