Aurelia Browder [Coleman] – April 19, 1955, seven months before Rosa
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Claudette Colvin – March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks
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Elizabeth Jennings Graham July 16th, 1864, exactly 101 years before the events surrounding Rosa Parks]
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Irene Morgan – [July 1944, eleven years before Rosa Parks]
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Mary Louise Smith [Ware] – October 21, 1955, 40 days before Rosa Parks
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