1. Welcome to the Museum of
Claudette Colvin
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Museum Entrance
Browder V. Gayle
Bus Boycott
Childhood
Quotes
Life After
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2. Andrea Sigala and Banessa Reyes
Curator’s Office
Andrea Sigala and Banessa Reyes
Andrea Sigala is a 7th grader in R.O. Gibson M.S. She is in the magnet program Leadership
Banessa Reyes is also a 7th grader in R.O. Gibson M.S. Who is in the magnet program Leadership
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3. Room 1 Childhood Room Artifact Artifact 2 1 Artifact 4 Artifact 3
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4. Room 2 Bus Boycott Room Artifact Artifact 6 5 Artifact 8 Artifact 7
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5. Room 3 Browder V. Gayle Room Artifact Artifact 9 Artifact 10 12 Returnto
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6. Room 4 Life After Room Artifact Artifact 14 13 Artifact Artifact 16 15
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7. Room 5 Quotes Room Artifact Artifact 18 17 Artifact 20 Artifact 19
"I felt like Sojourner Truth was pushing down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman was pushing down on the other—saying, 'Sit down girl!' I was glued to my seat."
"I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'"
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8. Claudette Colvin's Book
This is the picture of Claudette Colvin’s book cover. Twice Toward Justice is the name of the book. The book provides many information about Claudette Colvin's life story and also give a couple of details on the civil rights leaders. Some topics in the book are Claudette Colvin's childhood and the book cover is the famous picture of her when she was little. Another topic would be her whole story on the “Refused to give up her seat” thing.
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Claudette Child
When Claudette Colvin was 15 she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on the bus she boarded on Montgomery Alabama. This is a picture when she was much younger than fifteen. She refused to give up her seat on December 1, 1955.
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10. Claudette Colvin's Arrest
Like we have mentioned before Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat when she was only 15 years old. It was after school and she had to ride the bus to go home so she paid her money went out of the bus, back in the bus through the back door and sat down in the available seat. Then the bus came to its next stop and a white passenger boarded the bus. The white passenger wanted to sit down in Claudette's seat but she didn’t want to get up. So the bus driver called the cops and she got arrested. Two officers approached Colvin, she was crying at that time and she tried to explain herself, the officers also kicked a thin boy and knocked his textbooks to the ground. Colvin got dragged out of the bus and arrested.
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Colvin's pregnancy
She was pregnant when she was only 16 years old. She gave birth to a son Raymond, on May 11, He was fair skinned like his father that people often accused him of having a white baby. She left Alabama and went to New York, and for over 30 years worked during the night at a Catholic nursing home.
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12. Montgomery Bus Boarding
This is a picture of the Montgomery bus, in which Claudette Colvin rode on, and this is also the same bus that Rosa Parks rode on. This picture shows a good example of the people in Montgomery boarding the bus to go someplace. As you can see in the picture there are black people boarding the bus, so that means that when they go in the bus they pay their money and get out of the bus. Go back in the bus but this time through the back door, all of this whole commotion just to ride a bus and since the black people were poor they didn’t have enough money to buy a car. So they rode on the bus.
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Montgomery Bus
This is a good replica of the buses in Montgomery Alabama. I this bus still stands on the museum in an exhibit. The busses from back then are very different from the buses that we have today, some of our buses even have bathrooms in them! This bus is just an ordinary bus that carries around passengers. There is one thing that differs from the buses that we have this bus is split inside the middle, white people in the front of the bus and black people in the back of the bus.
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Rosa Parks
This is a famous simple picture that we see when we are doing a research on Rosa Parks. There she is sitting on her seat looking out the window waiting for the bus to take her where she wants to go. Claudette Colvin is considered the first Rosa Parks. Because we know that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on the bus. Same thing with Claudette Colvin.
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Bus Boycott
People are marching down the streets chanting
and screaming with signs that read Freedom and etc. The black people from Montgomery Alabama are refusing to ride any bus out there and since most of the buses were filled with black people the bus system was gaining a lot of money. Now the money is going down because the people are refusing to ride the buses they are walking now instead
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Browder Vs. Gayle
A Law of Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Browder vs. Gayle. Claudette Colvin is a member of this company Along with other workers. She served as a plaintiff in Browder vs. Gayle, A lawsuit that desegregated buses.
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Commentary
This is simply The Montgomery Bus Boycott & Browder V. Gayle, Which is Commentary by Fred Gray. A large paper way of explaining The bus boycott.
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Montgomery Bus
Another picture of the Montgomery Bus From the inside, This is another model of the bus and the picture is taken from a different angle. This picture is a little weird because the black passengers are in the front of the bus rather than the back of the bus.
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19. Claudette Colvin
After Her arrest she had a son named Raymond And was still working as a plaintiff in Browder V. Gayle. This picture is simply Colvin in her later ages.
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Colvin
Colvin has gotten Glasses because she has gotten older like many people have. Believe this a picture of her praying for equal rights or something. This picture was taken in her later ages at the time she was still working as a plaintiff in Browder Vs. Gayle.
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Colvin's life after
Claudette Colvin was a student attending The Booker T Washington High School and got arrested for not giving up her seat to a white Passenger. Claudette Colvin was Charged with disorderly conduct, violating segregation ordinance, and assault and battery. Although she never really assaulted anyone.
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22. Colvin
Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on March 2, She worked as a nurse's aide retired in 2004 and became a nurse in New York City.
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Colvin's Quote
This is Claudette Colvin's Quote that we found at Bio.com She said this quote in one of her speeches. She said this when she was tired of being treated wrongly. She was tired of not having the same equal rights as all the other people. To summaries she was tired of segregation. She wanted the same equal rights as everyone in Montgomery
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Interesting Fact
Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat Nine Months Before Rosa Parks, And it was Colvin's case that went to Supreme court. Only for her to be in the NAACP leaders since she was a pregnant teenager. The bottom picture shows Claudette Colvin old and young.
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Twice Toward Justice
This is simply the title for her famous book called Twice Toward justice. Pictures of her at the bottom of her young and old age.
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Colvin's Quote
This is another one of Claudette Colvin's quotes. Showing what she was feeling when she was in the bus sitting down at her seat for the last time, before she got arrested.
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Colvin's Book
This is a picture of Claudette Colvin's famous book “Twice Toward Justice” Has many information.
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28. The Young Claudette Colvin
This is Claudette Colvin At a young age when she was a student attending the Booker T Washington H.S.
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Colvin at an older age
This is Claudette Colvin at an older age when she was a plaintiff at Browder V. Gayle.
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Claudette Colvin
I believe this is a picture of Claudette Colvin when she was giving a speech or I think maybe on television.This was taken when she was saying a quote.
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