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On March 2, 1955, Colvin, only 15, made her principled stand (well, her principled sit) against the unjust law that black people had to cheerfully give up their seat on a city bus if any random white person - young or old, fat or skinny, knock-kneed or footloose - got on board the bus and wanted to sit in a seat already occupied by what they thought of, in their nicer moments at least, as a negro. And when this wisp of a girl, 15, thin, and having just come from school where she was learning more about the evils of segregation than she was in a mind for that day was asked to move so a white person could have her seat, she said something like "No, that violates my constitutional rights." Which is quite the argument coming from a small package containing a meager 14 vowels and 19 of the othe

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rdfs:comment	On March 2, 1955, Colvin, only 15, made her principled stand (well, her principled sit) against the unjust law that black people had to cheerfully give up their seat on a city bus if any random white person - young or old, fat or skinny, knock-kneed or footloose - got on board the bus and wanted to sit in a seat already occupied by what they thought of, in their nicer moments at least, as a negro. And when this wisp of a girl, 15, thin, and having just come from school where she was learning more about the evils of segregation than she was in a mind for that day was asked to move so a white person could have her seat, she said something like "No, that violates my constitutional rights." Which is quite the argument coming from a small package containing a meager 14 vowels and 19 of the othe
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abstract	On March 2, 1955, Colvin, only 15, made her principled stand (well, her principled sit) against the unjust law that black people had to cheerfully give up their seat on a city bus if any random white person - young or old, fat or skinny, knock-kneed or footloose - got on board the bus and wanted to sit in a seat already occupied by what they thought of, in their nicer moments at least, as a negro. And when this wisp of a girl, 15, thin, and having just come from school where she was learning more about the evils of segregation than she was in a mind for that day was asked to move so a white person could have her seat, she said something like "No, that violates my constitutional rights." Which is quite the argument coming from a small package containing a meager 14 vowels and 19 of the other. The bus driver summoned the police, who asked Claudette to get up from her seat. Nuttin' doing. This 15-year old was going to have to be dragged like a mad dog to the police car, for some reason complaining about her rights the whole way. Claudette's action preceded the better known Rosa Parks incident by nine months. That's something like 270 days, give or take a week. The court case stemming from Claudette Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery metropolitan bus was eventually decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, which used that case, late in 1956, to end bus segregation in all American cities, thus ending the well-known Montgomery Bus Boycott. Claudette's arrest also inspired a young local minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to begin openly questioning America's violation of its African-American citizens' civil rights. Rosa Parks, who planned to not give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery in maybe nine or ten months, was in a quandary.

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