Day: December 12, 2020
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Kate Brown vs Washington-Alexandria Railroad Case
February 8, 1868 As a Senate employee “in charge of the ladies’ retiring room,” Kate Brown worked hard. Senators noticed her “lady-like character” and described her as “intelligent” and “refined.” She was not a rebel or a troublemaker, but on a chilly afternoon in 1868 Kate Brown rebelled. Her story is a nearly forgotten chapter […]
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Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin
Retiree Claudette Colvin was 15 the day she refused to give up her seat on the bus. “My head was just too full of black history, you know, the oppression that we went through,” she says. Few people know the story of Claudette Colvin: When she was 15, she refused to move to the back […]
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