Why Did the NAACP Decide Not to Use Claudette Colvin's

question 18

Multiple Choice

Why did the NAACP decide not to use Claudette Colvin's arrest as a test case on the buses?

• A) Colvin was a white woman who tried to sit in the black section of the bus, and they wanted a black woman arrested.
• B) Colvin and her parents were not part of the local black social elite.
• C) Colvin was too old and in unstable health, and they did not feel she would make it through an arduous trial.
• D) Colvin had already had her life threatened by white supremacists in Montgomery and Birmingham.

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