NHEG-July-August2022

NHEG WRITERS ARTICLES
For further reading:
https://www.learningforjustice.org/sites/default/files/general/TT53%20Browder%20v.%20Gayle.pdf
“Nine months after Claudette Colvin’s arrest, local activist Rosa Parks took similar action. She refused
to give up her bus seat to a white rider and got arrested. Colvin’s actions raised awareness, but
Parks’s actions set off a boycott of the Montgomery bus lines. Thousands of Black residents rode the
bus to work, often for white employers. After Parks’s arrest, though, they refused to ride for an entire
year (National Youth Summit 2020).”
https://americanhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/file-uploader/NYS%20Case%20Study%E2%80%93S
tudent%20Kit%20FINAL4.pdf
Colvin’s case unlike Rosa Parks’s “was dropped by civil rights campaigners because Colvin was
unmarried and pregnant during the proceedings.[6][7] It is now widely accepted that Colvin was not
accredited by civil rights campaigners at the time due to her circumstances. Rosa Parks stated: “If the
white press got ahold of that information, they would have [had] a field day.
The record of her arrest and adjudication of delinquency was expunged by the district court in 2021,
with the support of the district attorney for the county in which the charges were brought more than
66 years before.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin
When people, no matter their race, color or creed cannot take any more discriminatory and racist
acts towards them, their only recourse is to take action. Humanity needs people like Colvin and the
others who took a stand for their rights despite the consequences.
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