It began when Mehlberg, 31, added her neighbor's dog, Zeppelin, to her dog-walking routine with her own pets, Dodge and Teddy ...
In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...
Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...