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
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
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
Rosa Parks
…designated for Black riders. Before Parks's refusal to move, several Black Montgomerians had refused to do so, including 15-year-old high school student Claudette Colvin, leading to arrests. When Parks was arrested in 1955, local leaders were searching for a person who would be a good legal test case against segregation…
Colvin in 1952, aged 13