3. TIL in 1921, "Black Wall Street" was the wealthiest Black community in America b...

TIL in 1921, "Black Wall Street" was the wealthiest Black community in America before being attacked by an angry mob which killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed 35 city blocks.

It's literally what happened, though. Minus the pregnant part -- she got pregnant later, and the stuff about Rosa being agitating.

Claudette Colvin was the 17yo. Rosa Parks, who worked for the NAACP at the time, was selected as a more palatable figurehead.

For many years, Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort because she was a teenager who was pregnant by a married man. While, the conventional story is that she was pregnant at the time of the incident, she actually did not become pregnant until later.[1] Words like "feisty", "mouthy", and "emotional" were used to describe her, while her older counterpart Rosa Parks was viewed as being calm, well-mannered, and studious. Because of the social norms of the time and her youth, the NAACP leaders worried about using her to symbolize their boycott.[2][3]

Claudette Colvin: "My mother told me to be quiet about what I did. She told me to let Rosa be the one: white people aren't going to bother Rosa, they like her".[4]

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