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Now 82 and slowed by age, NAACP activist Claudette Colvin is asking a court in Montgomery to wipe away her 1955 conviction for assaulting a police officer during a bus incident that occurred months before Rosa Parks' historic case.

Little Known Black History Facts

Rosa Parks and her defiant act of refusing to give up her seat in December 1955 in Montgomery, Ala. helped push the Civil Rights Movement forward. Nine months before that incident however, Claudette Colvin stood up for her right to sit where she pleased on a segregated bus yet her story was cast aside. Colvin […]

Fifty-eight years ago today, Rosa Parks, then 43-years-old, became a lightening rod for the Civil Rights Movement when she was arrested for refusing to give…