Project Continua is striving to expand our biography collection to include all women throughout time and around the globe.  We have much work to do.

Recognizing our dearth of biographies of black women, we want to instead share a fabulous piece by Rahel Gebreyes: “Celebrating The Forgotten Heroines Of Black History” at HuffPost Live.

We learn about Claudette Colvin, who at 15 years old, refused to give her seat on the bus to a white passenger, months before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955.  Because Colvin became pregnant soon after her arrest, she didn’t fit the image that the NAACP wanted to put forth to combat segregation.  Ohio State University professor, Treva Lindsey, explains that Colvin represents “tensions” in the black community that inform “how we remember, who we remember and who we celebrate” in history.

At Project Continua, we strive to remember ALL who have been forgotten.  Rest assured…Project Continua has a space for Claudette Colvin.