'History had me glued to the seat. Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth’s hand were pushing down on the other shoulder. I was paralyzed between these two women, I couldn’t move.'
spoke with Colvin, now 78 years old, at her home in New York and by phone about her experiences. The following is a condensed and edited version of those conversations.It started out a normal day.We got out early and 13 of us students walked to downtown Montgomery and boarded a city bus on Dexter Avenue, exactly across the street from Dr. Martin Luther King’s church. As the bus proceeded down Court Square, more white passengers got on the bus.
Some white students [on the bus] were yelling: “You have to get up, you have to get up.” And a colored girl, one of the students said, “Well she don’t have to do nothing but stay black and die.” I don’t know how I got off that bus. All the students said they manhandled me off the bus and into the squad car. They handcuffed me, booked me, and then instead of taking me to a juvenile detention center, they took me to city jail. That’s when terror came down. I became very frightened. They didn’t allow me to have a phone call, and I didn’t know that the students were gonna go and tell my parents.
All four of us didn’t get enough credit. Mary Louise Smith, who was 18, was arrested too. I was a little disappointed [at being left out], because the whole movement was about young people, saying we want more from America. We want to stand up and be first class citizens. The discrimination that’s going on, whether gender or racial or whatever, religious. We want it to be brought out and defeated.
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