🚌Before Rosa Sat, Claudette Already Had.
Nine months before Rosa Parks made history, a 15-year-old girl named Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. She was young, bold, and fearless, but the movement wasn’t ready to rally behind her. They called her “too rebellious,” “too dark,” “too unpolished.”
So when Rosa Parks, a seasoned activist and NAACP secretary, made that same choice, the world finally paid attention. Not because the act was new… but because society decided who was allowed to represent it.
Rosa knew the risk. She knew the story before hers. And she made her moment count, turning one woman’s refusal into a movement’s awakening.
🕊️ She passed away on this day in 2005, but her courage, and Claudette’s… still ripple through every generation learning that “quiet” does not mean “compliant”.
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