Claudette Colvin

All they wanted was freedom. From December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956 african americans in montgomery alabama started a boycott where they didn’t ride the bus. To get to work and other places they would carpool and take colored taxis, but most of all just walk. They would walk to stores they would walk to work they would walk everywhere. This topic is very important because Rosa Parks, an african american woman, wouldn’t give up her seat for a white man on a bus. She refused and was taken to

Gayle court case of 1956, in which four black women (Aurelia Browder, Claudette Colvin, Susie McDonald and Mary Louise Smith), who had all been discriminated against on the grounds of racial segregation laws, claimed against city and state governments. Three judges representing the district court ruled two to one that “the enforced

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 at Tuskegee, AL rosa had grew up in alabama. Her full name was Rosa Louise McCauly. rosa worked at a department. She went to Highlander Folk school. Rosa wanted to make a difference for the world. She believed that it is wrong to segregate african americans. So one day rosa decided not to move a seat for a white man, and she got arrested. Then people started doing the same thing for a year. So segregation stopped, now the jim crows laws don’t exist anymore

On March 2, 1955, E.D Nixon and Jo Ann Robinson, two members of NAACP, and the two most responsible for planning the boycott, heard about the arrest of Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old student who was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person. That was when the boycott was planned, but Claudette Colvin was pregnant and E.D Nixon said it would not be perceived well with her unmarried, child pregnancy record. The boycott was saved for a later date. That later date ended

shows all 3 of this rhetoric is the first video. In the first video Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks were talking about how amazing Claudette was for standing up for herself. In addition, some of the ways they show everything that is happening is by logos, ethos, and pathos. Logos is shown when the NAACP were trying to find out who can be the representative of the group and how they can stand up to what happened when Claudette was seating in the white section of the bus and did not move. Ethos is

was the most well know of this situation. Claudette Colvin was a 15 year old girl that did the same thing and got arrested. In the article Remembering Rosa Parks by Kevin Chappell it states, “ She was already an activist known, respected and impressive. Elevating her case was one of the best and most strategic things that the civil rights movement ever did.” This shows that because she was already well known it made a bigger impact than Claudette Colvin

young woman her name was Colvin Claudette. Colvin was student at Booker T. Washington High School. On March 2, 1955, she boarded a public bus and, shortly thereafter, refused to give up her seat to a white man. Colvin was coming home from school that day. At the same place Rosa boarded another month later. She was sitting two seats from the emergency exit. Until four white people boarded the bus , and the bus driver ordered her, along with three other black people. Colvin still did not move. She

passengers made up 75% of the bus system's riders. The boycott also took place within a larger statewide and national movement for civil rights, including court cases such as Morgan v. Virginia, the earlier Baton Rouge bus boycott, and the arrest of Claudette Colvin. This civil right movement had a lot to do with “The Help”. The montgomery bus boycott was all about the first large-scale

she refused and remained in her spot. She was arrested and received national publicity for that act. Before I continue, I want to talk about Claudette Colvin. Colvin was actually the first to resist giving up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama. She was a young teen girl that decided one day, she would not give up her seat. In the midst of everything, Colvin became pregnant out of wedlock. Rosa Parks was looked at a better candidate for the boycott so they went with her for the face of

One of those individuals was named Claudette Colvin. In an article by the New York Time’s tells the story of Colvin who was 15 years old at the time she was arrested in her hometown in Montgomery. On March 2nd 1995, she refused to give her seat to a white passenger after the bus driver demanded her to. Her act of opposition to the incident was no act of teen angst rebellion, but a stand for freedom. “Yet instead of being celebrated, Ms. Colvin has lived unheralded in the Bronx for decades