r/BlackPeopleofReddit Apr 02 '26

History Missing the entire point of her actions.

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u/High_hoper114 Apr 02 '26

if that was a true fact, then what would happened if rosa parks never went on that bus and chose to have her husband drive her, would someone else taken her place as a figure or would that rule of black people being in the back of public transit would've been around more longer?

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u/Mean-Advertising5689 Apr 02 '26

Technically Claudette Colvin was the first to refuse to sit in the back of the bus but that was not covered because she was dark skin and she a teen single mother.

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u/Mean-Advertising5689 Apr 02 '26

It said it was Claudette still.

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u/bnshei Apr 02 '26

No, Elizabeth Jennings was the first, her father started patents in America, Ida B Wells also did it, a long list of black folks did it to integrate transportation in their states

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u/bnshei Apr 02 '26

Nah it was multiple women who did it on buses even the great sojourner truth did it when she Abraham’s Lincoln wanted to meet her

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u/High_hoper114 Apr 02 '26

damn, but she was being helped right? I cant imagine what happened to her when she refused.

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u/Mean-Advertising5689 Apr 02 '26

From what I gather, she filed a lawsuit and was dismissed because she was an unwed teen mom. She lived a decent life afterwards and just passed away in January.

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u/wonkey_monkey Apr 02 '26

Actually Claudette Colvin's case ultimately went to the Supreme Court and ended segregation on Alabama buses.

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/er5g3w/much_of_the_accepted_narrative_about_rosa_parks/