(March 2, 1955) A scant nine months before Rosa Parks and the prominent Montgomery bus riots, there was a young girl named Claudette Colvin who did the very same thing. Claudette was on a bus on her way home from school where she had just been studying black history in depth. Her teachers had just spent a week focusing on all the injustices black people suffered in Montgomery, and Claudette realized that even though everyone was complaining, no one was doing anything to fix the problem! She was tired of hoping for justice- when her moment came, she was ready to take action. So, at around 3:30 in the afternoon, she “piled her textbooks on her lap, smoothed her blue dress, and settled back for a five-block ride that not only would change the