National Youth Summit: Teen Resistance to Systemic Racism

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History
National Youth Summit: Teen Resistance to Systemic Racism
We will host a panel discussion connecting stories of teenagers in the past fighting to address systemic injustice to those of the present. This year’s summit will be centered on the case study of Claudette Colvin—a 15-year-old Black student in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. Colvin refused to give up…