Claudette Colvin
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Claudette Colvin was an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat
Colvin in 1952, aged 13
Rosa Parks
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregati
Claudette Colvin
…to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months before the similar, more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott…
Parks in 1956
The No. 2857 bus on which Parks was riding before her arrest is now a museum exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.
The seat layout on the bus where Parks sat, December 1, 1955
Police report on Parks, December 1, 1955, page 1