If you know who Rosa Parks is, you should also be aware of Claudette Colvin. Born September 5, 1939, in Alabama, she grew up in a poor, segregated area of Montgomery. Both of her parents worked hard to provide her some semblance of an average life, so she relied on the city’s bus system to get […]

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