Claudette Colvin, Whose Defiance Helped End Bus Segregation, Dies at 86

Yahoo News ^ | 01/13/26 | Brandon Tensley

[Fury]

Nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks’s famous act of defiance, a 15-year-old Black girl named Claudette Colvin had already refused to surrender her seat on a segregated bus on March 2, 1955.

[ClearCase_guy]

I'll stick with this one.

[JZelle]

Shawn’s mom?

[Round Earther]

“History had me glued to the seat..”

Amazing strength and resolve for a 15 year old.

[Salman]

Rosa Parks’ "famous act of defiance" was a deliberately constructed test case.

Previous cases of defiance (they were *not* rare) simply resulted in prosecutions and fines. Sometimes short jail sentences.

Whereas Rosa Parks was with a group that lawyered up in advance.

[dfwgator]

Cedric the Entertainer said it best in “Barbershop”

“Rosa Parks didn’t do nothin’ but sit her black ass down!”

[Jamestown1630]

Yes.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Damn, I can’t believe the Yahoo Newbies threw Rosa Parks under the bus once they used her up. I’ll bet not one of those ahos even knows who Rosa Parks was. That’s too bad.

[Tell It Right]

I wonder what Rosa Parks would say about today’s racial discrimination in the name of DEI.