correct me if im wrong but didnt a cac found the naacp
didnt the naacp shun the original girl who sat in front of the bus because she was dark skinned and had rosa parks do it months later because she was more marketable?
Claudette Colvin (b. 1939) was a pioneer of the
African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in
segregated Montgomery, Alabama, nine months prior to Rosa Parks.
Colvin was among the five plaintiffs originally included in the federal court case filed by civil rights attorney
Fred Gray on February 1, 1956, as
Browder v. Gayle, and she testified before the three-judge panel that heard the case in the
United States District Court. On June 13, 1956, the judges determined that the state and local laws requiring bus segregation in Alabama were unconstitutional. The case went to the
United States Supreme Court, which upheld their ruling on December 17, 1956. Colvin was the last witness to testify. Three days later, the Supreme Court issued an order to Montgomery and the state of Alabama to end bus segregation, and the
Montgomery Bus Boycott was called off.
Rosa was the public face, Claudette was part of the actual court battle that ended segregation. Two pronged system.