Today in History: March 2, Black teen refuses to give up her bus seat
- Posted on March 2, 2026
- By The Denver Post
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Today in History: March 2, Black teen refuses to give up her bus seat

Nine months before Rosa Parks’ more famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a Black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to …