http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/01/living/rosa-parks-anniversary-feat/index.html

The 42-year-old secretary defied Jim Crow laws that called for the separation of the races by refusing to move to the back of a bus to allow a white man to have her seat.

That defiant act in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 was a pivotal point in the civil rights movement and transformed Parks into a symbol of the struggle. Social media marked the day and remembered her, with some taking note of the current plight of African-Americans.

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Ronald "Jim Crow" Pootawn

it was a teenage girl who actually took a stand on the bus, BUT she was a teenager and became pregnant (sound familiar?) so the blacks needed a cleaner representative

that is how we got rosa parks

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Claudette Colvin


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Claudette Colvin


Born
September 5, 1939 (age 76)
Alabama, U.S.

Residence
The Bronx, New York City

Occupation
Civil rights activist and nurse

Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955, she was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the more publicized Rosa Parks incident by nine months.

Colvin was among the five plaintiffs originally included in the federal court case, filed by civil rights attorney Fred Gray on February 1, 1956, as Browder v. Gayle, and testified before the three-judge panel that heard the case in the United States District Court. On June 13, 1956, the judges determined that the state and local laws requiring bus segregation in Alabama were unconstitutional. The case went to the United States Supreme Court, which upheld the ruling on December 17, 1956. Colvin was the last witness to testify. Three days later the Supreme Court issued an order to Montgomery and the state of Alabama to end bus segregation, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott was called off.

For a long time, Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort because she was a teenager who was pregnant and unmarried. Given the social norms of the time and her youth, the NAACP leaders worried about using her to represent their boycott.[1][2]

I thought Rosa Parks refused to stand.

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