Important Women Hidden by History - Part 1

After seeing Hive account@clevercreator 's post on Physics girl (link to her post here), I decided that I would make a little series on the all the incredible women that you probably haven't/won't seen in any textbook. Because quite frankly, there are a lot of women who never got the spotlight when they deserved it.

So to start it all off I'm gonna tell you the story of Claudette Colvin, the girl who pulled a Rosa Parks 9 months before Rosa Parks.

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She was just 15 years old when it had happened, taking the bus home from high school. A white woman came on the bus and wanted Colvin's seat, but Colvin refused. When two cops came and demanded she give up her seat, she refused telling them she had paid her fair, and it was her constitutional right. The cops then arrested her as she kept screaming "It's my constitutional right!" over and over again, without fighting back.

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She and five others who had been arrested for not giving up their seats, none of whom was Rosa Parks, were the plaintiffs included in the federal court case, Browder vs Gayle, that ended bus segregation. When the case went to the US Supreme court she was the last witness to testify. 

Here's an interview with her by Democracy Now in 2013.