Multiple Choice
Why did the NAACP not decide to use Claudette Colvin's arrest as a test case on the buses?
A) Colvin was a white woman who tried to sit in the black section of the bus, and they wanted a black woman arrested.
B) Colvin was not considered "suitable"-she was 15, unmarried, and pregnant.
C) Colvin was too old, and in unstable health. They did not feel she would make it through an arduous trial.
D) Colvin had already had her life threatened by white supremacist groups in Montgomery and Birmingham.
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