Nine Months Before Rosa Parks
Nine Months Before Rosa Parks
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You’ve heard of Rosa Parks, but do you know about Claudette Colvin?
On March 2, 1955, when Claudette was 15 years old, she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL. This was nine months before Rosa Parks did the same thing.