my mindset was on freedom and my mindset was on the hero. The women especially the women soldier on the truth and carry your stuff. So I was not going to move that. More than 60 years after Claudette Colvin was arrested in Montgomery Alabama. The state cleared her name to Miss Colvin and to her family. I'm honored to be here as we try to do our part to correct the record. Mhm. Her actions back in March of 1955 were conscientious, not criminal inspired, not illegal. Her crime refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus. Months later, rosa parks would do the same thing in the same city, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott. And while parks became a part of history, Colvin was largely forgotten until now. Only your courage and your faith and your dedication brought about the change that was necessary, not only in Montgomery, not only in Alabama but throughout this nation. Claudette Colvin was 15 years old on March two, when she was riding the bus home from school, I had a lifeless sweater and a dark blue skirt and I never will forget that busses were segregated and when a white passenger got on the driver told Colvin to move to the back. One of the white passion has said, well you better get up, you better get up. But you know, it's the law when I didn't get up. One of them, the girls in the back and he said, but she had to do nothing but stay black and die. She refused. Police officers came on board and arrested her. It was unfair what they was doing. I read for you to move. So they really had to unglued me from the seat. I said, it felt as though Harriet told me hand was pushing me down on one shoulder and soldier on the true hand were pushing me down on another rosa. Parks was arrested later that year for the same reason. And her arrest, not Claudette Colvin sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. Lady wanted to use a teenager because who was who was going to follow a teenager, Dr King being the spokesperson for the movement. He had helped the people together so long. They didn't want to lose. So they were, in other words, they were running out of time. So they wanted to use rosa to draw the people in the adult people in. And it worked the yearlong boycott got national and then international attention and so did martin Luther King, Jr and the civil rights movement? What happened in 1955 games? A lot of black people courage to engage in some other movements that made a difference in history. But Colvin's role faded into the background. Oh sure I was forgotten the day. I went back to school. I was my peers. They always say claudia, you are crazy, but she did play an important part in the lawsuit that challenged the city's segregated busses. In 1956 Browder vs Gayle went all the way to the Supreme Court. A lot of people think because they saw he was sitting on the bus and they thought the Kale just because she got up and refused that that's what it is, segregation. No, it was a lot of litigation that we all took place. A lot and a lot of attorneys, they don't know mary louise smith where they don't know Susan Mcdonald and they don't know Aurelia Browder, Aurelia Browder, Suzy Mcdonald, mary, louise smith and Claudette. Colvin were the four plaintiffs names, most people don't remember. The Supreme Court sided with the lower court's decision, segregated busses were unconstitutional. The court refused to hear any appeals and on december 21st Montgomery, busses were integrated, But Colvin's arrest remained on her criminal record and after 66 years she wanted her name cleared. And so did the mayor of Montgomery. I wanted to say to MS Colvin, thank you for your courage, thank you for your bravery, thank you for your steadfastness and not only what you did, but what you have to sacrifice. Too cold in the fight was worth it. And it's not over yet. You just have to inspire the people that you know, just keep on pushing and keep the struggle going because it is not over. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm