The city of Gainesville remembered Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin during its annual Black History Month event that celebrates civil rights leaders from the 1950s and 1960s.
The event happened at the Rosa B. Parks Transfer Station and is coordinated by the Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee and RTS.
Bonnie Burgess, president of the committee, said the committee thought it would be right to honor Colvin alongside Parks this year. Burgess said Colvin was the spark while Parks was the torch that pushed the Civil Rights Movement into motion with their refusal to give up bus seats…