A Mighty Girl - 15-year-old Claudette Colvin became the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama on this day in 1955. She was arrested for refusing to give up her
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Claudette Colvin: the woman who refused to give up her bus seat – nine months before Rosa Parks | Society | The Guardian
![This once-forgotten civil rights hero deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom - The Washington Post This once-forgotten civil rights hero deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom - The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/12/01/Interactivity/Images/AP_090205043624.jpg?t=20170517)
This once-forgotten civil rights hero deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom - The Washington Post
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Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin Is Fighting to Clear Her Record | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
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Claudette Colvin: the woman who refused to give up her bus seat – nine months before Rosa Parks | Society | The Guardian
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Claudette Colvin: the woman who refused to give up her bus seat – nine months before Rosa Parks | Society | The Guardian
Unbothered - What the power of two can do. Thank you Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks for battling segregation. #BlackGirl Magic #ThrowBackThursday | Facebook
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Opinion | Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus. She's still on probation. - The Washington Post
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Civil rights pioneer wants arrest record for refusing to give up seat expunged | Civil rights movement | The Guardian
![Black women of Courage: Elizabeth Jennings, Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King. | Damien Marie AtHope Black women of Courage: Elizabeth Jennings, Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King. | Damien Marie AtHope](http://damienmarieathope.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Captureyfghj.png)
Black women of Courage: Elizabeth Jennings, Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King. | Damien Marie AtHope
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