Acrylic on canvas

Signature on the back

60 x 60 x1.6 cm

23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch.

Unique

 

The Unstoppable Collection

Claudette Colvin was fifteen. Montgomery, Alabama, 1955.

She refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman - nine months before Rosa Parks did the same thing and became the name everyone remembers.

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Parks was a trained activist, strategically positioned by organizers ready to build a case around her. Colvin was a teenager who simply refused, with no campaign behind her. Both mattered. 

 

She became one of four plaintiffs in the federal case that struck down bus segregation. She said it herself: "I'm not disappointed. Tell people Rosa Parks was the right person for the boycott. But tell them the lawyers also brought four other women before the Supreme Court to challenge the law - and that's what ended segregation."