When Conscience Outweighed the Law
On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus after classes at Booker T. Washington High School. When the driver ordered...
This is a contemporary on courage and youth, drawing on Acts 5:29.
On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus after classes at Booker T. Washington High School. When the driver ordered her to give up her seat for a white passenger, she refused. Police pulled her from the bus in handcuffs. "I felt like Sojourner Truth was pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman was pushing me down on another shoulder," she later recalled.…
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