According to the law, civil rights are something everyone is given. However, history has shown that this is not always the case. Claudette Colvin didn’t give her seat up to a white person because she wanted to end segregation. Claudette got thrown into jail for doing that which is not fair. But without Claudette the world wouldn’t be like it is today. In the United states, civil rights are supposed to be for all people have had to fight for their rights, when others tried to deny them, today all the people respect Claudette Colvin.
What made Claudette Colvin important to the Civil rights movement? Claudette Colvin was important to the civil rights movement because of the bus boycott. She didn’t give up her seat to a white person while she was a black person. She was arrested at the age of 15. She said “ I had History glued to my seat.” She was the one who started the bus boycott Rosa Parks finished it. The police had to pick Colvin up and kicked her in the shins to make her calm down. Everybody thought Claudette Colvin was a hero and she was, she changed segregation for life without her people would still be segregated. …show more content…
Claudette Colvin wanted the blacks to be treated like the whites who are being treated like royalty and the blacks were being treated very poorly. Claudette Colvin thought it was her constitutional right to sit wherever she wanted to on the bus. She thought it was wrong that the bus seats were segregated by the color of people’s skin. Bus seats were not segregated anymore because of Claudette Colvin most people thought it was Rosa parks even though it was Claudette Colvin who started the bus boycott that changed history
What made Claudette Colvin important to the Civil rights movement? Claudette Colvin was important to the civil rights movement because of the bus boycott. She didn’t give up her seat to a white person while she was a black person. She was arrested at the age of 15. She said “ I had History glued to my seat.” She was the one who started the bus boycott Rosa Parks finished it. The police had to pick Colvin up and kicked her in the shins to make her calm down. Everybody thought Claudette Colvin was a hero and she was, she changed segregation for life without her people would still be segregated. …show more content…
Claudette Colvin wanted the blacks to be treated like the whites who are being treated like royalty and the blacks were being treated very poorly. Claudette Colvin thought it was her constitutional right to sit wherever she wanted to on the bus. She thought it was wrong that the bus seats were segregated by the color of people’s skin. Bus seats were not segregated anymore because of Claudette Colvin most people thought it was Rosa parks even though it was Claudette Colvin who started the bus boycott that changed history