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After school on March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin walked to downtown Montgomery with three of her classmates. She and her friends were going to take the city bus home from school that day. When they boarded the bus, they sat behind the first five rows, which were reserved for white passengers.
2 mar 2020 · Claudette Colvin, nata il 5 settembre del 1939 in Alabama, è una donna afroamericana degli Stati Uniti. È (semi)conosciuta come “La madre del movimento moderno dei Diritti Civili “. Il 2 marzo 1955, a soli 15 anni, si rifiuta di cedere il suo posto su un autobus di Montgomery a una persona bianca di mezza età e – per questo motivo- viene arrestata .
Oggi Claudette Colvin ha problemi di salute dovuti all’età e non ha potuto rivivere l’esperienza che l’ha vista protagonista ormai 69 anni fa. Ma sua sorella è stata ospite di “Noire” al Centre Pompidou. In un’intervista pubblicata quattro anni fa, Claudette si è mostrata ancora combattiva e ferma nelle sue idee.
Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin. On March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin boarded a bus home from school. Fifteen years old, the tiny Colvin attended Booker T. Washington High School. She’d been politicized by the mistreatment of her classmate Jeremiah Reeves and had just written a paper on the problems of downtown segregation.
Claudette Colvin at age 13, April 20, 1953. In 1955, Claudette Colvin, a high school student in Montgomery, Alabama boarded the city bus. Her ride went without incident, until she was asked to move to the back of the bus and give her seat to a white passenger. She refused replying to the bus driver that it was her “constitutional right” to ...
Claudette Colvin (* 5. September 1939 in Birmingham, Alabama [1]) ist eine der Vorreiterinnen der US-amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung von 1955 bis 1968. Als 15-Jährige widersetzte sie sich am 2. März 1955 der damaligen Rassentrennung in öffentlichen Bussen in Alabama, neun Monate vor der bekannteren Bürgerrechtlerin Rosa Parks [2].
2 mar 2020 · Claudette Colvin in 1952. Alamy. By Olivia B. Waxman. March 2, 2020 11:00 AM EST. O n March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was sitting on a totally full bus in Montgomery, Ala., when the ...
