This video was published on YouTube on March 29, 2013.
At a ceremony unveiling a statue in her honor last month, President
Obama called Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery,
Alabama, city bus a "singular act of disobedience." But nine months
before Parks' historic action, a 15-year-old teenager named Claudette
Colvin did the very same thing. She was arrested and her case led to the
U.S. Supreme Court's order for the desegregation of Alabama's bus
system.
Source: Democracy Now!
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