Claudette Colvin was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. Occurring nine months before the similar, more widely known incident involving Rosa Parks that helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, Colvin’s resistance effort was not publicized for fear of the high likelihood of political attack and criticism on both Colvin, who was pregnant and unmarried at the time, and the civil rights movement.