What is courage?
How can people stand up for their rights?
What does it take to change an unfair law or practice?Why were Claudette Colvin and the Montgomery Bus Boycott so important to the civil rights movement?
Watch this short video on The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Around the same time Rosa Parks famously protested segregation by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, a teenager named Claudette Colvin went to jail in Montgomery, Ala., for doing the exact same thing. This is her story.
Additional Resources:
Click here to read Browder v. Gayle: The Women Before Rosa Parks
This is a summary of the Browder v. Gayle case mentioned in Scene 7 of the play.
Click here to read primary document-Rules for Riding Desegregated Buses
Why did leaders think these types of suggestions were necessary?
