This 15-year-old was the original Rosa Parks

Meet Claudette Colvin, a Civil Rights hero you've probably never heard of. In 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus -- 9 months before Rosa Parks. This is part of our "History Refocused" series -- stories from America's past you should have heard about, but probably didn't.

source https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/02/18/claudette-colvin-history-refocused-orig.cnn