We all know about Rosa Parks and not giving up a seat for a white man. Months before Parks, Claudette Colvin stood up to segregation in Alabama in 1955. Colvin was only 15 years old! She even wanted to be president one day. On March 2, 1955, Colvin was riding home on a city bus after school. Then a bus driver told her to give up her seat to a white passenger. She said, "It's my constitutional right to sit here as much as that lady. I paid my fare, it's my constitutional right." Colvin was arrested on several charges, including violating the city's segregation laws. For several hours of her being in jail she was terrified. The NAFTAOCP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) briefly considered using Colvin's case to challenge the segregation laws. But then they decided not to because of her age.
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