On this date:
In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a Black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.
I just heard this story for the first time about a week ago.
Not meaning to be too preachy or anything, but I think I've learned more black/minority history in the last couple of years than I had in the whole time before, including/especially school. For example, I first learned about the Tulsa massacre and Black Wall Street from the movie Watchmen...and even then, thought it was fiction until I looked it up...and then found at least half a dozen similar events including one in upstate NY. Of course there is the now confirmed famous story of the black man that was critical in making Jack Daniels.
In any case, I've come to learn that history is not quite as black and white (no pun intended) as I once thought.
