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Day: 16th October 2020

Claudette Colvin – The Girl Who Came Before

16th October 20205th March 2026 / historicallywoman / Leave a comment

The name ‘Rosa Parks’ is one that has been - deservedly - heralded globally as one of the first voices in the 1950s American Civil Rights Movement. Not many people know, however, that she was not the first; a girl named Claudette Colvin had been arrested for the same act nine months prior.

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