Push underway to get a woman on the 20.
That article covers that leading candidates and all that nonsense.
A Woman on the 20
I'll throw some props Harriet's way. She's the only one that put her life on the line damn near every day for a few years. Not knocking what Rosa did, but the bus driver didn't have a Springfield 1863 shooting rounds of .58 minie.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Yeah, her sitting was staged. The real hero there was Claudette Colvin but she wasn't pretty enough so they redid it as a PR thing with Rosa Parks.
It was still important and got the job done so I'm not knocking her. But it wasn't as spontaneous as it was made to seem at the time.
It was still important and got the job done so I'm not knocking her. But it wasn't as spontaneous as it was made to seem at the time.
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Claudette - Who I had never heard of before today.
Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955, she was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the more publicized Rosa Parks incident by nine months.
Colvin was among the five plaintiffs originally included in the federal court case, filed on February 1, 1956 as Browder v. Gayle, and testified before the three-judge panel that heard the case in the United States District Court. On June 13, 1956, the judges determined that the state and local laws requiring bus segregation in Alabama were unconstitutional. The case went to the United States Supreme Court, which upheld their ruling on December 17, 1956. She was the last witness to testify and was considered the "star" witness. Three days later, the Supreme Court issued an order to Montgomery and the state to end bus segregation in Alabama.
For a long time, Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort because she was a teenager and became pregnant while unmarried. Given the social norms of the time and her youth, the NAACP leaders worried about using her to represent their movement.[1][2]
It's not me, it's someone else.
I thought the first girl was a much younger unwed mother, so they figured she wouldn't get the sympathy that the older black grandmotherly type would.
That is also true, but she wasn't an unwed mother at the time of the original incident. Just young and not the right sort of skin tone. Although she did give birth to a son 10 months later.
When asked why she is little known and why everyone thinks only of Rosa Parks, Colvin says the NAACP and all the other black organizations felt Parks would be a good icon because "she was an adult. They didn't think teenagers would be reliable."
She also says Parks had the right hair and the right look.
"Her skin texture was the kind that people associate with the middle class," says Colvin. "She fit that profile."
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