At just 15 years old, on March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama nine months before Rosa Parks’ more widely known act of resistance. She was forcibly removed, arrested, and charged with violating segregation laws. Claudette Colvin became one of the four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle (1956), the landmark federal court case that ended bus segregation in Montgomery and Alabama. Her testimony helped secure a ruling

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