Claudette Colvin, MLK, and the erasure of Black women from civil rights canon - AFRO American Newspapers
Source: AFRO American Newspapers — January 17, 2026
By Julienne Louis On Martin Luther King Jr., Day, the nation reflects on the Civil Rights Movement by invoking a familiar cast of heroes. We repeat the same names, the same photographs, the same speeches—often without interrogating who is missing from the story.