aravenhairedmaiden:

i-am-babulous:

thesylverlining:

literally in my 1st grade book that I read and learned about her for the first time, it described her as “a woman named rosa. rosa’s feet were tired.” 

that’s it. rosa’s feet were tired. 

that doesn’t begin to scratch the surface, and it’s so important that we know the rest.

I remember the first time I read about her, she was described as tired.

The next time, it was “she wasn’t physically tired. She was tired of giving up her position as a person to a man who probably didn’t work as hard as she did that day.”

There was never anything about Claudette Colvin, which is horrible.

I NEVER reblogged this post because there was no commentary on Claudette Colvin. Her story is important.