During this Black History Month, for the next, we are showcasing some of our lesser-known Black American heroes. They may be lesser known not because of their lack of contribution but because their exploits were never taught in history class. Sit back, relax, and listen to how these Americans triumphed against unbelievable odds to become leaders not only in the African American community but national leaders in their own right.

While many were taught that Rosa Parks was the first to famously refuse to give up a bus seat. However, nine months before her 1943 protest in Montgomery, Alabama, then fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a standing white woman after school. Colvin was then forcibly removed from the bus and arrested, but would later go on to be one of the principal plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case Browder vs. Gayle, which declared bus segregation unconstitutional under the fourteenth amendment.

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