In 2017, the city of Montgomery declared March 2, Claudette Colvin Day. In an excellent article by Melissa Brown for the Montgomery Advertiser, the city looks back on Claudette’s heroic act.

“I didn’t get up and stand up. I just sat there. When people ask me why I didn’t get up and move, I tell them history had me glued to the seat. Emotionally, it felt as though Harriett Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth was pushing me down on the other. For these historical, iconic women I had been taught so much about, I just couldn’t move. I just couldn’t move. That’s the only way I knew how to resist, to not move. So they just dragged me off the bus.”
—Claudette Colvin