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ThesisA 15-year-old girl who demanded justice from oppressive Jim Crow laws refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in March, 1955, nine months before the famed Rosa Parks.
———————————————————————-- Claudette Colvin deserves more credit for helping to ignite the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. ———————————————————————-- Colvin’s courage in demanding her Constitutional rights helped spark the modern movement and gave hope to the practice of peaceful resistance, which was key to the entire Civil Rights Movement. ——————————————————————-- Colvin’s participation and victory in the Browder v. Gayle Supreme Court case proved to be a crucial turning point eliminating bus segregation and helping pave a path for Martin Luther King’s career as a leader. |