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Food for thought. Claudette Austin in March of 1955 at age 15 was arrested nine months before Rosa Parks for not letting a white woman have the bus seat. The civil rights lawyers from the NAACP knew that a darker complexion woman getting arrested... moreFood for thought. Claudette Austin in March of 1955 at age 15 was arrested nine months before Rosa Parks for not letting a white woman have the bus seat. The civil rights lawyers from the NAACP knew that a darker complexion woman getting arrested wouldn't be an eye opener to changed the law. The thought was that a lighter complexion African American woman would resonate with Caucasians views. It did.
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