#srly go read up on her

So, correct me if I’m wrong. But.

As many other people I, too, learned in school about Amazing Rosa Parks, the hero who protested racial segregation by not standing for a white person. But.

But.

What I didn’t learn in school and actually learned a lot later was about the brave Teenager Claudette Colvin.

This is her. On March 2, 1955 at age 15 she did the exact same thing Rosa Parks would do about nine months later. But.

But.

The whole thing was kept secret because she was said to be pregnant from a married man which made her “a bad role model”. As far as I know that wasn’t even true. 

I’m not saying what Rosa Parks did was any less dangerous or worth praise. Rosa Parks was a brave woman who fought for her beliefs.

But so was this teenage girl and I do think she deserves to be known and praised as well.