After a sold-out run in 2019, it's back for a few dates in October.įind more about Colvin, including a video and radio programme, in our article about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Noire uses archive photos and film as well as interviews to draw a portrait of the young woman history forgot to remember.
Tania de Montaigne on stage in "Noire" with a photo of Claudette Colvin at 15 in the background. Tania de Montaigne wrote an award-winning biography of Colvin in 2015, and adapted it into a play with Stéphane Foenkinos. Yet she was one of four named plaintiffs in the case against the city which ultimately led to the end of segregation on the bus system. So Claudette Colvin is not remembered as the instigator of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Certainly, she wasn't considered a suitable candidate by civil-rights activists to front a legal case: young, spontaneous and, it was soon discovered, pregnant, Colvin wasn't the respectable, middle-aged woman the activists felt was needed. She's the subject of a play (in French), Noire. First, Colvin was a minor and Parks was an adultParks seemed more trustworthy as the face of a movement than a kid would have been. But nine months before Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did the same thing. Rosa Parks is known the world over as the African American who refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.
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