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Moncina's avatar

Thanks, Auntie Claudette Colvin for fighting for us. Rest in heavenly peace.

DuShaun's avatar

Rest well and well done! 😭😭💛💛

Dax Jac's avatar

One of the original civil rights pioneers who receives little to no attention from mainstream media!!

Jason at Dad//Citizen's avatar

Powerful pioneer. May her memory live in all of us

Paula L Moore's avatar

😢💔🕊️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Tyrone  Saunders's avatar

God bless you and protect you Rest in Power

Hollysdower's avatar

Claudette Colvin's was the best Drunk History segment ever! RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tov2tLSFq5k

Leslye Joy Allen, Historian's avatar

Here’s what is often left out of this story. (For the record Black activist E.D. Nixon, Virginia and Clifford Durr paid Ross Parks’ bail.)

In Virginia Durr’s papers a friend of hers wrote that his students asked him how they could support Claudette Colvin. I don’t remember the mailing address Virginia Durr gave this man, but it read:

Claudette Colvin C/O Rosa Parks