I ve always been fascinated by the story of Claudette Colvin.
On March 2, 1955, Claudette was a 15-year-old frightened Black girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was jailed nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for the same civil disobedience, but not in the same way.
Claudette was already in the colored section of the Montgomery bus along with other students from her school. They were headed home when the white woman expected Claudette to give up her seat even though there was an empty seat next to Claudette and vacant seats across the aisle from the girl.