#teenageactivist

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Repost from @bnplit using @RepostRegramApp - I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, "This is not right.” ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin, a teenager who knew her constitutional rights and was willing to be arrested to prove it—her early activist work been a footnote due to a number of reasons, one including that she was pregnant teen at the time as respectability politics served the time well to discredit and shame her. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Using interviews with Colvin & eye opening photos from the era, this read seeks to set the record straight and works to give this extraordinary woman the credit she deserves. #claudettecolvin #bnplit #civilrightsmovement #teenageactivist #blackwomenareeverything https://www.instagram.com/p/B7t-2i8lW6d/?igshid=16vemox4gikw1