Rosa Parks is well known for what she did back in 1955. She gave up her seat for a white person. Yes of course there was consequences , and she did go to jail. But she stood up for her self. Black and white people were seperated because of the law segregation. But it's not just Rosa Parks who did this. A women named Cluadette Colvin, also stood up for the segregation rights in 1955 at Alabama. At the time, she was only 15, but that did not stop her for standing up for what is right. She had also served for plaintiff. A plaintiff is a person who brings a case against another court of law. The case helped end the practice of segregation on Montgomery public buses. But one day, colvin was arrested, for many charges. Like violating the segregation laws. She had sat in jail for many of those hours for what she did by disobeying the laws on segregation.
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