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

question 42

Multiple Choice

Why did the NAACP not decide 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 was not considered "suitable"-she was 15, unmarried, and pregnant.
• C) Colvin was too old, and in unstable health. They did not feel she would make it through an arduous trial.
• D) Colvin had already had her life threatened by white supremacist groups in Montgomery and Birmingham.

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