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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
emacsomancer@types.pl ("'(B . Slade)") wrote:
"Happy 82nd Birthday, Claudette Colvin (Sept. 5, 1939)! Colvin is a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement & a retired nurse aide.
On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus."
[from https://twitter.com/blkwomenradical/status/1434521325419343883 ]
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- Newspaper clippings, with a black-and-white photos of 15-year-old (in 1955) Claudette Colvin. "Girl, 15, Guilty In Bus Seat Case Montgomery, Ala. - A 15-year-old girl who refused to move to the rear of a city bus was found guilty in Juvenile court here last Friday on charges of assault and battery, disorderly conduct and with violating a city ordinance which makes it 'unlawful for any passenger to refuse or fail to take those seats assigned to the race which it belongs'. The girl, Claudette Colvin, was declare a ward of the state and placed on probation pending...." (remote)
