Claudette Colvin
Born in Alabama in 1939, Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old student at Booker T. High School when she defied the rules of Jim Crow segregation by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man.  At the time she was a member of the NAACP Youth Council, which was advised by Rosa Parks. For various reasons, including the fact that she soon became pregnant and seemed at the time emotionally volatile, the NAACP decided not to make hers a test case of segregation.  Later she moved to New York, and worked for 30 years as a nurse's aide. 
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