How Did Claudette Colvin Get As Much Credit As Rosa Parks?

Claudette Colvin was the first person to not give up her seat when asked about sitting in the front of the bus where whites sit. The credit may have gone to Rosa Parks, but Claudette Colvin was the first person to do it. Back then, colored people were treated differently by that I mean colored people couldn’t be seen with whites, or associated with them. If a colored person looked into a store and started touching things, they would be accused of stealing. Why did Claudette Colvin not get as much credit as Rosa Parks? When Claudette Colvin didn’t move off the bus or to a different seat when asked to or when she got out of jail, people where like that’s amazing what you did, others questioned why she did it, and others thought she was crazy.

Claudette Colvin did not move when asked to because she liked what she was learning in history about what these great people were doing, so she decided to follow that example. Claudette Colvin was 15; she lived in Montgomery County and that is where the story takes place. As she got older she moved to New York and became a nurse later then retired. She liked her teacher and loved learning, especially about history. She really liked learning what she thought about becoming president. She was born on September 5, 1939, and grew up in one of the poorest neighborhoods. Claudette Colvin was motivated because of history. “I felt like Sojourner Truth was pushing down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman was pushing on the other saying, ‘Sit down girl!’ I was glued to my seat,” she later told Newsweek. Claudette Colvin was pretty confident after she got out of jail she later then made a quote saying, “I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it, either. You have to take a stand and say, This is not