Claudette Colvin: The original Rosa Parks

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    Claudette Colvin was only 15 years old when she protested segregation by refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 2, 1955. That was nine months before Rosa Parks famously performed the same act of resistance in Montgomery on December 1, 1955.

    Claudette Colvin was only 15 years old when she protested segregation by refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 2, 1955. That was nine months before Rosa Parks famously performed the same act of resistance in Montgomery on December 1, 1955.