Dec. 16th, 2016

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Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white person, Claudette Colvin did the same.

Although Claudette challenged the law in court first, she was 15 years old at the time. The NAACP felt Rosa Parks would be a better icon than a teenager, especially after Claudette got pregnant.

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