She remembers thinking of her English teacher’s lesson about understanding and taking pride in her history. Get off, several white passengers told her. Ms. Colvin, who was 15, stayed put, and was promptly arrested. “I’m not doing it for me, I’m 82 years old,” Ms. Colvin said in an interview on Tuesday. “But I wanted my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren to understand that their grandmother stood up for something very important, and that it changed our lives a lot, changed attitudes.”

Source: New York Times October 26, 2021 23:02 UTC