there were a number of women who refused to give up their seats on the same bus system. Most of the women were quietly fined, and no one heard much more.
teenager [Claudette Colvin], nine months before Rosa Parks, "in the same city, in the same bus system, with very tough consequences, hauled off the bus, handcuffed, jailed and nobody really knew about it."
The NAACP didn't want to use Colvin because she was a pregnant 15 year old. They recruited Rosa Parks who worked in their office to be their plant. From an NPR web site. (npr.org)
>there were a number of women who refused to give up their seats on the same bus system. Most of the women were quietly fined, and no one heard much more.
>teenager [Claudette Colvin], nine months before Rosa Parks, "in the same city, in the same bus system, with very tough consequences, hauled off the bus, handcuffed, jailed and nobody really knew about it."
The NAACP didn't want to use Colvin because she was a pregnant 15 year old. They recruited Rosa Parks who worked in their office to be their plant. From an [NPR web site. ](https://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin)
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