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New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.

Claudette Colvin

A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no way you are going to get your hair that straight, especially in the summer.
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Hairs Myself Women
There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn’t even go into the same restaurants.
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Oppression Yourself
When you’ve been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.
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Humility People Yourself
I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.
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Crazy Friendship Lost Myself
Rosa Parks wasn’t the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.
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Myself Oneself Oppression Strength
I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.
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Dream Myself People Right Thinking Young
I left the South in 1963 and was living in Morristown, New Jersey, when the March on Washington took place, so I watched it on television instead.
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Live Myself Place
What do we have to do to make God love us?’ I always grew up with that. I always used to go around thinking that. ‘God loved the white people better. He must’ve. That’s why he made them white.’
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God Grow Up Love People White
I never swore when I was young.
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Myself Young
I was about four years old the first time I ever saw what happened when you acted up to whites.
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Act Myself Time White
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president, because so many others gave their lives and didn’t get to see it, and I thank God for letting me see it.
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God Live Thankful Worth
There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story
I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
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Black Establishment Myself People World
When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack.
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Heart Mom Myself Pregnant
I’d like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.
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Family Myself See

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