From Footnote to Fame in Civil Rights History

November 26th, 2009 admin

Claudette Colvin, who resisted unfair treatment on a Montgomery, Ala., bus nine months before Rosa Parks, lived an unheralded life until a recent book highlighted her story.


Originally posted on NYTimes

 
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