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Claudette Colvin, now 82, was arrested when she was 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery. The incident came nine months before Rosa Parks' far more famous arrest.

Claudette Colvin, now 82, was arrested when she was 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery. The incident came nine months before Rosa Parks' far more famous arrest.

Claudette Colvin, now 82, was arrested when she was 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery. The incident came nine months before Rosa Parks' far more famous arrest.

Claudette Colvin, now 82, was arrested when she was 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery. The incident came nine months before Rosa Parks' far more famous arrest.

In 1955, at just 15-years-old, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. The act of defiance gave her a juvenile record that has followed her –– until now.

Claudette Colvin, now 82, was arrested when she was 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery. The incident came nine months before Rosa Parks' far more famous arrest.

Claudette Colvin, now 82, was arrested when she was 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery. The incident came nine months before Rosa Parks' far more famous arrest.

"My reason for doing it is I get a chance to tell my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, what life was like living in segregated America."

Claudette Colvin, now 82, was arrested when she was 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery. The incident came nine months before Rosa Parks' far more famous arrest.

Colvin, now 82, was arrested when she was 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery about nine months before Rosa