![]() The city's Black leaders prepared to protest, until it was discovered Colvin was pregnant and deemed an inappropriate symbol for their cause.Īlthough Parks has sometimes been depicted as a woman with no history of civil rights activism at the time of her arrest, she and her husband Raymond were, in fact, active in the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP), and Parks served as its secretary. Blake pulled away before she could re-board the bus.ĭid you know? Nine months before Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested in Montgomery for the same act. In 1943, she had paid her fare at the front of a bus he was driving, then exited so she could re-enter through the back door, as required. ![]() ![]() This was not Parks’ first encounter with Blake. ![]() She was arrested and fined $10, plus $4 in court fees. ![]()
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