Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin. At the time, 15-year-old Claudette was sitting on a totally filled bus in Montgomery, Alabama when the driver asked her to give up her seat so that a white women could sit, but Collette refused. She was not only roughly yanked off her bus by two officers but was also arrested. After her arrest, she was shortly bailed out and went on to become an activist. This very own incident happened just nine months before Rosa Parks did the very same thing. As most women were scared and quiet back then, Claudette was the first voice of women to really change the law and speak up.