Traci Mumford

While her case made headlines, local civil rights leaders decided not to make Colvin their symbol of discrimination.

Instead, they waited and rallied around Parks when she was arrested for taking a similar stand.

Colvin later said it was because she was too dark-skinned and too poor to win the support of Montgomery's black middle class.

Colvin went on to become a star witness in a crucial court case that paved the way for the end of segregation on public transit across the entire U.S.,

She kept relatively quiet about her own story until years after it happened.

She told the Times she changed her mind after she realized she could potentially help kids better understand the civil rights movement.

Quote, young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.

Those are the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

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