Claudette Colvin Day

Claudette Colvin Day:

New York, New York- On Monday, February 8, 2016, New York State legislators, on the occasion of Black History Month, will officially declared March 2nd Claudette Colvin Day in the state of New York to honor Ms. Claudette Colvin, one of the living legends of the civil rights movement and a resident of New York since 1958.

This momentous occasion in the Capitol Hill will be witnessed by a diverse groups of people of from all walks of life. Buses transporting seniors and students in particular will be leaving from different cities in the state including New York City to attend this long delayed and historic day. For New York City residents wishing to attend this ceremony can contact us at: info@peacedecember.org or call 718-239-5555.

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BACKGROUND:

Re: National Justice Awareness Campaign.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015, Bronx, New York, The New York PeaceCoalition, through its Peace December movement, affirmed and recognized the Honorable Claudette Colvin yesterday at The Bronx Library Center. Hon. Colvin is the first civil rights leader who had refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama.

Her bold stance in the face of injustice has made renowned heroes like the Honorable Rosa Parks and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King to take assume the mantra of well deserving accolades in history that highlights the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the eventual passage of the civil rights laws that ended segregation in Alabama.

Yesterday’s event at the Bronx Library Center honored the person that triggered the whole action that has gone into the world’s history books. It is text book clear that the Honorable Colvin is the unsung hero and a living legend of our time who deserves the same recognition as the Honorable Rosa Parks, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and other civil rights icons that have taken the front seat in America’s historic journey.
While we recognize that Hon. Rosa Parks, through NAACP campaign, became the face of resilience surrounding the Montgomery bus segregation uprising, we would like to affirm Hon. Colvin as being the first person who refused to give up the seat and her action inspired Hon. Parks.

Today, America has registered this social justice historic hallmark as a precedence inspiring America’s legal discourse and motivating civil rights leaders of our time because of the immovable stand in the face of injustice from both Mrs. Colvin and Mrs. Parks.

To this end, the New York Peace Coalition, in collaboration with elected officials in New York, has launched a national justice awareness campaign to render the long overdue and delayed credit to the unsung heroine of the civil rights movement, the Honorable Claudette Colvin.

This campaign includes:

1. Annual celebration of Claudette Colvin Day on March 2nd.
2. Establishing a scholarship fund in her name on March 2, 2016 during theCommission on the Status of Women event at the United Nations.
3. Asking President Obama to honor her with ‘Presidential Medal of Freedom’
4. Asking Congressional Black Caucus to recognize her as thefirst activist to refused to yield to the demand of segregationist busdriver.

For further information about this campaign, please contact us at:info@peacedecember.org. www.peacedecember.org