On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Interest Level: YA ATOS Book Level: 6.8 AR Interest Level: MG AR Points: 5 AR Quiz: 129138EN Reading Counts Level: 8.5 Reading Counts Points: 10 Lexile Measure: 1000 Fountas & Pinnell: Z.