Claudette Colvin says she was rejected and ostracized after her arrest when the community learned she was pregnant. Later, however, she returned to courageously testify in Browder v. Gayle. Khalil Muhammad explains that the “respectability politics” that pushed Colvin aside have been rejected by today’s new generation of activists.
To learn more about Browder v. Gayle, visit the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance site:
tolerance.org/article/browder-v-gayle-women-rosa-parks
View The Other Episodes
- Episode One: History had me glued to the seat
- Episode Three: The Rosa Parks You Didn’t Know
- Episode Four: Rosa Parks’ Acts of Courage
- Episode Five: The Strategy of Nonviolence
- Episode Six: Goodman, Schwerner & Chaney