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[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47477354 by BBC 12/3/19] | [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47477354 by BBC 12/3/19] | ||
The black neighbourhood of Greenville in segregated 1960s Mississippi had never seen anything like it. Neither had Mr Gorton when he encountered white people praying alongside their black brethren during an impromptu street-side Pentecostal revival. | The black neighbourhood of Greenville in segregated 1960s Mississippi had never seen anything like it. Neither had Mr Gorton when he encountered white people praying alongside their black brethren during an impromptu street-side Pentecostal revival. | ||
=====Claudette Colvin: The 15-year-old who came before Rosa Parks===== | |||
[https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43171799 by Taylor-Dior Rumble 10/3/18 BBC] | |||
In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did exactly the same thing. Eclipsed by Parks, her act of defiance was largely ignored for many years. She herself didn't talk about it much, but she spoke recently to the BBC. | |||
