
Nine months before Rosa Parks’ more famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a Black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.
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On March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks more famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin,… [+2280 chars]






