stuff i learned from the history channel show '10 things you didn't know about'.....
from the civil rights episode:
This episode explores little-known details surrounding the
American Civil Rights Movement and beyond.
- Lyndon Johnson taught at a segregated school
- Rosa Parks wasn't the first woman to refuse to give up her seat
- Martin Luther King stopped Star Trek's only black actress from quitting
- Zoot suits were outlawed during World War II
- Malcolm X held a secret meeting with the Ku Klux Klan
- The majority of the Black Panthers were women
- A black student was jailed just for applying to college
- Black and white basketball teams played championships years before the NBA
- California had the most Jim Crow laws of any state
- One Japanese American spent 40 years fighting his internment conviction
from wikipedia
Quote:
Claudette Colvin is a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955, she was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama.
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She was forcibly removed from the bus and arrested by the two policemen, Thomas J. Ward and Paul Headley.[9][10][11] This event took place nine months before the NAACP secretary Rosa Parks was famously arrested for the same offense.[1] Claudette Colvin: "My mother told me to be quiet about what I did. She told me to let Rosa be the one: white people aren't going to bother Rosa, they like her".[3]
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For many years, Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort because she was a teenager who was pregnant by a married man; words like "feisty", "mouthy", and "emotional" were used to describe her, while her older counterpart Rosa Parks was viewed as being calm, well-mannered, and studious. Because of the social norms of the time and her youth, the NAACP leaders worried about using her to symbolize their boycott.[1][2]
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