Colvin's Struggle In Browder Vs. Gayle
This is the story about how Claudette Colvin and how she stood up for herself and Her whole community. This involves many hardships and struggle for Colvin and her family. It also describes how she is living today.
Claudette Colvin was born on September 5, 1939 in Alabama. Claudette is well known for a few things but this is the most important. On March 2nd 1955 she refuses to move seats for a white woman and is punished. She was drug off the bus by the police and brought to jail. She became one of the four plaintiffs in “Browder vs Gayle” which ruled that that Montgomery's segregated bus-system was unfair for many people.
Claudette was very scared to go to jail because she was pregnant with her son.Her parents bailed her out of jail the next few day’s. …show more content…
After she was bailed out she found out she had to drop out of college. But after she found out about the bad news she thought about moving and getting a job, so she moved to New York City to work as a nurses aid. Then after nine months a woman named Rosa Parks did exactly the same thing as Claudette Colvin. The community was furious because Rosa was well known in the community unlike Colvin who was a quite person that kept to herself and had few friends.
Colvin was a student at the Booker T. Washington high school in Alabama and was pregnant when she was still pretty young. During her life she always thought to herself “Why don't the adults around here just say something to free segregation to free us from being hated.” She was known as the mother of the civil rights movement.
The NAACP [national association for the advancement of colored people] loved Colvin and her story but they didn't want to add her with them because she was an unmarried teenager that has a baby.
They didn't think it would be a great idea because what would happen to the baby during this time or her. During her childhood she went through many hardships. She had to deal with being beat or called names and her parents lived even worse. Her parents were proud of her for standing up for herself but didn't like the idea of her going to jail because her baby and they would have to bail her out and they might have been more of a target. But that wasn’t so they still lived the same life.
Claudette is still alive today but she is happy now because she has no more name calling or beating. But she says “she is thankful that she is still alive and that her son is alive.” This is the end of the the life of Claudette Colvin story and I hope you have learned something about hardships of African Americans and you are thankful for how we live today. Claudette Colvin is 76 years old and is considered a “war hero”. This is the life of Claudette Colvin and her struggles and what she did to stick up for herself and her
community.
Claudette Colvin was born on September 5, 1939 in Alabama. Claudette is well known for a few things but this is the most important. On March 2nd 1955 she refuses to move seats for a white woman and is punished. She was drug off the bus by the police and brought to jail. She became one of the four plaintiffs in “Browder vs Gayle” which ruled that that Montgomery's segregated bus-system was unfair for many people.
Claudette was very scared to go to jail because she was pregnant with her son.Her parents bailed her out of jail the next few day’s. …show more content…
After she was bailed out she found out she had to drop out of college. But after she found out about the bad news she thought about moving and getting a job, so she moved to New York City to work as a nurses aid. Then after nine months a woman named Rosa Parks did exactly the same thing as Claudette Colvin. The community was furious because Rosa was well known in the community unlike Colvin who was a quite person that kept to herself and had few friends.
Colvin was a student at the Booker T. Washington high school in Alabama and was pregnant when she was still pretty young. During her life she always thought to herself “Why don't the adults around here just say something to free segregation to free us from being hated.” She was known as the mother of the civil rights movement.
The NAACP [national association for the advancement of colored people] loved Colvin and her story but they didn't want to add her with them because she was an unmarried teenager that has a baby.
They didn't think it would be a great idea because what would happen to the baby during this time or her. During her childhood she went through many hardships. She had to deal with being beat or called names and her parents lived even worse. Her parents were proud of her for standing up for herself but didn't like the idea of her going to jail because her baby and they would have to bail her out and they might have been more of a target. But that wasn’t so they still lived the same life.
Claudette is still alive today but she is happy now because she has no more name calling or beating. But she says “she is thankful that she is still alive and that her son is alive.” This is the end of the the life of Claudette Colvin story and I hope you have learned something about hardships of African Americans and you are thankful for how we live today. Claudette Colvin is 76 years old and is considered a “war hero”. This is the life of Claudette Colvin and her struggles and what she did to stick up for herself and her
community.