Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice

Rosa Parks

Fred Gray

Claudette

Martin Luther King Jr.

the defense attorney for Montgomery County

Claudette's fiancé

a young lawyer working with King

Rosa Park's brother

seven

eight

six

nine

her mother slapped her for touching a white boy's hand

she had to drink at a different fountain

she asked to go to the white school

she tried to make friends with a little white girl

enforcing Jim Crow laws

humiliating teenagers

harassing women

looking for activists

She was seen drinking underage

She got pregnant about a month after her arrest

She failed tenth grade

She was caught shoplifting

continuing to try to look "white"

for dating light-skinned boys

not straightening her hair, but wearing it in African styles

not getting good grades in school

saying they would soon be overturned

saying the law was wrong and it didn't apply to them

claiming they were unconstitutional and ruled that Claudette was guilty

claiming Claudette was lying about her "constitutional rights"

with her father and his new wife

with her great aunt and uncle, or slept at friends' homes

at the school boarding room

with her grandmother

a very influential teacher of Claudette

the 2nd person arrested for not moving on a bus

the female defense attorney

all of the above