Uploaded April 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice book (affiliate): bit.ly/MBC_CCB

9 months before Rosa Parks, a 15-year-old student named Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her action would result in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the case that made such segregation. So why does no one know her name?

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