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Montgomery's Black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort for many years. She was an unmarried teenager at the time and was reportedly raped by a married man soon after the incident, from which she became pregnant.
Colvin did not receive the same attention as Parks for a number of reasons: she did not have "good hair", she was not fair-skinned, she was a teenager, and she was pregnant. The leaders in the Civil Rights Movement tried to keep up appearances and make the "most appealing" protesters the most seen.
Claudette Colvin: the woman who refused to give up her bus seat – nine months before Rosa Parks. It was a spring afternoon in 1955 when a teenager's spontaneous act of defiance changed US history.
Summary. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act of protest was considered the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement.
Today marks the anniversary of Rosa Parks' decision to sit down for her rights on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, putting the effort to end segregation on a fast track. Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, after she refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger.
