Ahead of speaking at toryburch’s Embrace Ambition Summit, civil rights activist Claudette Colvin talks to Vogue about racism in America, the upcoming election, and more.
I don’t recall learning about Claudette Colvin in my grade school American History classes. In fact, even as an adult, I don’t think I’d heard her story until last fall when I picked up Jonathan Safran Foer’s bookThat book is about climate change—specifically the impact of the meat industry and factory farming—but the author brings up dozens of people and moments in time to give context to the complicated topic.
There wasn’t bad blood between Colvin and Parks, though; the women worked together at the NAACP, where Parks was the secretary. Parks was respected throughout the community and also happened to be a grown woman of 42, whereas Colvin was just 15. At the time, everyone agreed that Parks seemed like a better fit to lead the movement; it was a lot more planned out than most of us would have thought. “They didn’t want a teenager to be the face,” Colvin explained on a recent call.
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