Claudette Colvin during Interview, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson).
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Claudette Colvin grew up in Montgomery, Alabama and was a teenager when the fight for Civil Rights really began. Colvin was riding a bus when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and was arrested, nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for the same offense. However, Colvin was seen as too young and rebellious (she was pregnant at the time) to represent the movement, which Parks was later chosen for. Colvin did become a witness in the lawsuit that eventually went to the Supreme Court and ended bus segregation in Montgomery.
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