Overshadowed By Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Catalyst Finally Recognized
From the New York Times:
On that supercharged day in 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., she rode her way into history books, credited with helping to ignite the civil rights movement.
But there was another woman, named Claudette Colvin, who refused to be treated like a substandard citizen on one of those Montgomery buses — and she did it nine months before Mrs. Parks. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his political debut fighting her arrest. Moreover, she was the star witness in the legal case that eventually forced bus desegregation.
Yet instead of being celebrated, Ms. Colvin has lived unheralded in the Bronx for decades, initially cast off by black leaders who feared she was not the right face for their battle, according to a new book that has plucked her from obscurity.
Last week Phillip Hoose won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for “Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice,” published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The honor sent the little-selling title shooting up 500 spots on Amazon.com’s sales list and immediately thrust Ms. Colvin, 70, back into the cultural conversation.
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While these civil rights groups were busy looking for the right “face” to fight for, they all were dying a slow death due to weak agendas. NAACP, URBAN League, SNCC, SCLC, CORE have been embarrassingly marginalized. This is what happens when you let those you are fighting against, actually shape your group and dictate your agenda. Before you know it, you have been rendered fast asleep. RIP to all these groups who have done NOTHING, measurable for us collectively since their inception. Anyone who wants to voice a rebuttal to my comments, please look at the state of our schools, neighborhoods, health and economy before doing so. Then please provide me some proof of how any of these areas are better now than they were 40 years ago. There is doc**ented proof that shows, we have lagged far behind in all those areas and then some, since these groups were in their so called heyday!
I never knew… and now I feel bad for all the people who struggled on my behalf who I’ve never thanked.
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