Topic: Clifford Durr

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22: The Dream Maker
38:50 - 42:16

22: The Dream Maker

Rosa Parks and the Selection of Claudette Colvin

The hosts discuss how Rosa Parks was strategically chosen to be the face of the Montgomery bus boycott over 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Colvin had refused to give up her seat nine months earlier, but activists felt she was not the right "cast" for the movement because she was dark-skinned and allegedly pregnant. Parks, a trained activist who attended the Highlander Folk School, was deemed more marketable for the legal challenge.