Rethinking Our History
In this new bi monthly show from the host of The Paranormal Lovers we take a look at some of histories less well known events. Why are they less well known? Because " History is written by the victors."
So we are here to look at the other side of the story, and to give people a starting point to learn about the true history of this country.
Rethinking Our History
Episode 5: Claudette Colvin
We have all been taught the story of Rosa Parks in school, but what we were taught was not the whole story. Rosa's actions that day were staged after another woman did the same thing.
Claudette Colvin was a pregnant 15 year old dark skinned black girl who one day refused to give her seat up on the bus. But Claudette did not look the way they needed her to look to get the sympathy from white people that the black community needed to make a change.
So they sent in Rosa, and told Claudette to just be quite. Well we are here to tell her story and make sure the world knows, without Claudette, there would have been no Rosa.
ROH Episode 5 Source Notes