Rosa Parks Got the Glory. Claudette Colvin Just Wants Her Record Expunged
by Maiysha Kai from on (#5R5WY)
In recorded history, Rosa Parks is largely credited with the act of resistance that prompted the Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama on December 1, 1955-which, in turn, became a catalytic event in the broader civil rights movement of the last century. But nine months earlier, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested...