ENDING SEGREGATION CHAPTER 1 Claudette Colvin grew up in Alabama She was part of the civil rights movement This movement took place in the 1950s and 1960s At the time segregation was common in many WATCH A VIDEO HERE
Claudette Colvin played a key role in ending segregation on public buses states Laws kept black people and white people separate
The laws said some stores and restaurants were for white people only Black people were not allowed to go there Also black people could not sit in certain sections of buses or trains WAITING ROOM FOR COLORED ONLY BY ORDER POLICE DEPT Segregation laws said black and white passengers had to use separate waiting rooms
REX THEATRE FOR COLORED PEOPLE LOUIS PASTOR RANDALL Boys stand outside a segregated theatre in Leland Mississippi in 1939 They had to use separate bathrooms and water fountains too DID YOU KNOW Even libraries and movie theatres were segregated
