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Lessons in Black History – Claudette Colvin (plus Mary Louise Smith and Irene Morgan Kirkaldy)
Claudette Colvin – Rosa Parks is considered the godmother of the Civil Rights Movement for not giving up her seat on a segregated bus in December 1955. Parks’s act of defiance has been recorded by history as being the spark that set off the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was in turn crucial in ending segregation.…
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