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The Most Famous, But Not The First
Rosa Parks is the most famous protestor to refuse to give up her seat, but she was far from the first to do so. Claudette Colvin was only fifteen years old when she was arrested for doing the same thing in Alabama nine months earlier, but because she was also pregnant at the time, the NAACP decided against publicizing her case, as questions about her character might distract from the central issue of segregation. Going back even further, Ida B. Wells was forcibly removed from a whites-only train car in Tennessee in 1884. Wells actually successfully sued the railroad company, but her victory was overturned in appeal.
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Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. http://www.rosaparks.org/biography/
Doyle, Caitlin. Girls Can Do Anything: From Sports to Innovation, Art to Politics, Meet Over 200 Women Who Got There First. Buffalo: Firefly Books, 2016. Print.
Lee, Chana Kai. "Parks, Rosa." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Vol. 3, Oxford University Press, 2008, 416-417.
Shen, Ann. Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2016. Print.
Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. http://www.rosaparks.org/biography/
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