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On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin was riding home on a city bus after a long day at school. A white passenger boarded, and the bus driver ordered Claudette to give up her seat. Claudette refused. As she later told Newsweek "I felt like Sojourner Truth was pushing down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman was pushing down on the other. I was glued to my seat." Colvin was arrested for her civil disobedience and briefly put in jail. Roughly 9 months later and inspired Rosa Parks was arrested for the same refusal, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott lasted 13 months and led to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary was one of the few Black women elected to serve as a delegate. She attended the national convention in 1855. Source: National Women’s Hall of Fame

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