"She was 15 and the bus was crowded so she sat at the front. This was a year before Rosa Parks. They didn't want to use her as an example because she got pregnant by a pastor who she was having an affair with, so they said that would be bad for publicity.
"Basically, that's why they used Rosa Parks. Who was 42, a 'clean' image for them to protest the segregated buses. You could say that Claudette Colvin was the true rebel, because her defiance of segregation wasn't staged.
"Just how I feel about it, anyway."
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43171799
https://www.biography.com/activist/claudette-colvin
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