254: She Slept With Her Sister's Husband + Sister is NO LONGER GAY?? 🏳️‍🌈😶 (Reddit Stories) Ep. 254

She refused to give up her seat on the bus nine months before Rosa Parks, and you've probably never heard of her.

This is Badass Black History: Claudette Colvin Edition.

On March 2nd, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a city bus after school.

Claudette was sitting in a middle row near an emergency exit when the bus became crowded, so crowded that white people were forced to stand and couldn't find a seat, and Jim Crow protocol stated that Black people towards the middle or the front would have to give up their seat to the white people.

Claudette said no.

Police arrived, arrested Claudette, and dragged her off the bus as she yelled, "This is my constitutional right." She was charged with disturbing the peace, violating segregation laws, and battering and assaulting a police officer.

Her minister bailed her out and told her that she had brought the revolution to Montgomery.

February of 1956, Claudette was one of four plaintiffs in a court case that would eventually go all the way to the Supreme Court.

They determined that Alabama had to end bus segregation.

This is what called off the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Why do we know about Rosa but we don't know about Claudette? Mother told her to be quiet about what she did.

She said that the public would respond better to Rosa because she was fair skinned.

Claudette was dark skinned, a teenager, and pregnant at the time.

Black leaders also thought that Rosa would be a better case test for integration because she was an adult who had a job and would be better able to handle it.

Claudette says she wasn't angry that she didn't get more recognition, just disappointed.

Claudette Colvin died in hospice care on January 13th, 2026 at the age of 86.

She refused to give up her seat on the bus nine months before Rosa Parks, and you've probably never heard of her.

This is Badass Black History: Claudette Colvin Edition.

On March 2nd, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a city bus after school.

Claudette was sitting in a middle row near an emergency exit when the bus became crowded, so crowded that white people were forced to stand and couldn't find a seat, and Jim Crow protocol stated that Black people towards the middle or the front would have to give up their seat to the white people.

Claudette said no.

Police arrived, arrested Claudette, and dragged her off the bus as she yelled, "This is my constitutional right." She was charged with disturbing the peace, violating segregation laws, and battering and assaulting a police officer.

Her minister bailed her out and told her that she had brought the revolution to Montgomery.

February of 1956, Claudette was one of four plaintiffs in a court case that would eventually go all the way to the Supreme Court.

They determined that Alabama had to end bus segregation.

This is what called off the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Why do we know about Rosa but we don't know about Claudette? Mother told her to be quiet about what she did.

She said that the public would respond better to Rosa because she was fair skinned.

Claudette was dark skinned, a teenager, and pregnant at the time.

Black leaders also thought that Rosa would be a better case test for integration because she was an adult who had a job and would be better able to handle it.

Claudette says she wasn't angry that she didn't get more recognition, just disappointed.

Claudette Colvin died in hospice care on January 13th, 2026 at the age of 86.