Black History Month Spotlight Claudette Colvin

Before Rosa Parks made history, there was Claudette Colvin. At age 15, on March 2, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We do it between seven oh five and sevent ten,
throughout the whole month of February.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Mother's Black History Fact, Well, I need to go back
to ps.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Two sixty eight because all these years I thought Rosa
Parks was the first black woman to stage a sit in?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Were hunting? No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Rosa Parks was not the first black woman to stage
a sit in. Before Rosa Parks was on a scene,
there was Claudette Covin in March of nineteen fifty five,
to fifteen year old schoolgirl remained rooted to her spot,
refusing to move to the back of the bus. This
was nine whole months before Rosa Parks famous stan Did.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Y'all know that? Did y'all know about Claudide.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Covid, Well, the young girl had been studying the history
of black leaders like Harriet Tubman in school. Those lessons
had triggered many heated discussions about the present day Jim
Crow laws. And when the bus driver demanded that Claudette
moved to the rear of the bus, she refused.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
So that is a major Black history fact.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
And you can go to The Mother Nose Show on
Pound nine nine dot com and download all episodes It's
been a phenomenal month when it comes to Black history,
and I thoroughly enjoy presenting these facts to you, even
though every day is Black history.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'm kind of upset with myself that I didn't know
that I actually took Black studies all these years. I
thought Rosa was the first, and shout out to you, Rosa,
but we gotta give our credit to Claudade yep