The Journey Of Claudette Colvin A young adult who stood up for her rights by sitting down. Staying in her seat was what got her the fame but being pregnant stop her game. This means the news people decided that a pregnant teen should not be on the News as a role model. It didn’t exactly mean that it stop her game (which was getting black people's rights) but it didn’t let a lot of people get motivated by her. Claudette Colvin born in Montgomery Alabama on September 5, 1939. She was adopted by C. P. Colvin and Mary Anne Colvin. When she was four she was in a store with her mom and a group of white boys had came in. They asked her to compare their hand size with her’s. When she touch the boy’s hand her mother slapped her for touching him. …show more content…
On March 2, 1955 Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat for a white passenger. Claudette did the same thing as Rosa Parks but nine months before her. No one gave her much credit for her stand up. Some reasons for this was on March 29, 1956 Claudette Colvin had her son named Raymond. The newscast did not want to show an example of a pregnant teen. In 1958, Claudette Colvin left Montgomery for New York. Claudette and Raymond lived with Claudette’s older sister Velma Colvin. While she was living in New York Claudette had a second kid. She named him Randy. He got a job as an accountant in Atlanta, he married and they made a family of their own. She got a job in Manhattan, as a nurse’s aide in a nursing home, she worked there for 35 years. She retired in 2004. Claudette Colvin has been interviewed multiple times since the bus incident. "’I feel very, very proud of what I did. I do feel like what I did was a spark and it caught on.’ ‘I'm not disappointed,’ Colvin said. ‘Let the people know Rosa Parks was the right person for the boycott. But also let them know that the attorneys took four other women to the Supreme Court to challenge the law that led to the end of segregation.’” This is a quote by Claudette Colvin talking to Montgomery Advertiser in