Good News Day part 1

This story reminds me that it is young people making a difference and always has been. Plus, this story makes me happy to be alive because I appreciate what my predecessors have done for human rights. It takes small and large actions for things to change.

clipped from www.npr.org Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin "We couldn't try on clothes," Colvin says. "You had to take a brown paper bag and draw a diagram of your foot ... and take it to the store. Most people know about Parks and the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott that began in 1955, but few know that there were a number of women who refused to give up their seats on the same bus system. Most of the women were quietly fined, and no one heard much more. Colvin was the first to really challenge the law. Author Phil Hoose couldn't get over that there was this teenager, nine months before Rosa Parks When asked why she is little known and why everyone thinks only of Rosa Parks, Colvin says the NAACP and all the other black organizations felt Parks would be a good icon because "she was an adult. They didn't think teenagers would be reliable."