On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus—nine months before Rosa Parks did the same. Despite her courage, civil rights leaders deliberately chose to make Parks, not Colvin, the face of the movement. This episode explores why, and what it reveals about respectability politics, strategic activism, and whose stories history chooses to remember.
This episode was generated with AI assistance.