Claudette Colvin, 15, Arrested for Refusing Bus Seat Nine Months Before Rosa Parks

On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her bus seat in Montgomery and is forcibly removed and arrested. She is later convicted of violating segregation laws and assault. NAACP leaders consider using her case to challenge bus segregation but decide against it partly because Colvin, unmarried, is pregnant. Her act of resistance predates Rosa Parks by nine months. Colvin is later a plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle but receives far less historical recognition than Parks.