Live Breaking News & Updates on வாஷிங்டன் சந்தித்தல்

Stay updated with breaking news from வாஷிங்டன் சந்தித்தல். Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Claudette Colvin: How Black women and girls have been excluded from civil rights history


Claudette Colvin: How Black women and girls have been excluded from civil rights history
CNN
2/21/2021
Analysis by Brandon Tensley and Skylar Mitchell, CNN Video by Deborah Brunswick, Janelle Gonzalez, Jeff Simon and Cassie Spodak
© Provided by CNN
Claudette Colvin did a revolutionary act nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks.
In March 1955, the 15-year-old was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a White person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
The teenager and others challenged the law in court. But civil rights leaders, pointing to circumstances in Colvin s personal life, thought that Parks would be the better representative of the movement. ....

United States , Lincoln Memorial , District Of Columbia , United Kingdom , White House , Claudette Colvin , George Zimmerman , Alicia Garza , Ericka Huggins , Anna Arnold Hedgeman , Trayvon Martin , Jane Rhodes , Rosa Parks , Eldridge Cleaver , Coretta Scott King , Martin Luther King Jr , Daniel Kaluuya Fred Hampton , Abby Phillip , Gloria Richardson , Opal Tometi , John Lewis , Hueyp Newton , Martin Luther Queen , Dorothy Height , James Baldwin , Patrisse Cullors ,

Black women's roles in the civil rights movement have been understated - but that's changing


Claudette Colvin did a revolutionary act nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks.
In March 1955, the 15-year-old was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a White person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
The teenager and others challenged the law in court. But civil rights leaders, pointing to circumstances in Colvin’s personal life, thought that Parks would be the better representative of the movement.
“People said I was crazy,” Colvin recently told CNN’s Abby Phillip. “Because I was 15 years old and defiant and shouting, ‘It’s my constitutional right!’ “
Colvin’s story and the experiences of other Black women and youth underscore the difficult questions and realities that Black leaders and activists have been forced to grapple with. Who gets to represent a movement? And who’s the “appropriate” spokesperson for Black Americans’ fight for basic civil rights? ....

United States , Lincoln Memorial , District Of Columbia , United Kingdom , White House , Claudette Colvin , George Zimmerman , Alicia Garza , Ericka Huggins , Anna Arnold Hedgeman , Trayvon Martin , Jane Rhodes , Rosa Parks , Eldridge Cleaver , Coretta Scott King , Martin Luther King Jr , Daniel Kaluuya Fred Hampton , Abby Phillip , Gloria Richardson , Opal Tometi , John Lewis , Hueyp Newton , Martin Luther Queen , Dorothy Height , James Baldwin , Patrisse Cullors ,