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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Claudette Colvin

In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ much more famous arrest for the same thing, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin was placed in handc...

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Rebecca Hensley: This is a book project about women we never hear about: women who climbed mountains, scalped their kidnappers, and held off the Roman troops longer than anyone else ever (six months). I'm tired of living in a world where the slang term for being weak is a slang term for a woman's genitals. I'm not asking for respect anymore. I'm giving it. To myself.

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