Do you know who Claudette Colvin was? A 15 year old hero in the civil rights movement.

[Hamlette]

8. I'd guess she did, she worked for the NAACP and the NAACP considered Claudette as a plaintiff

there were others too. Branch talks about it in Parting the Waters. Claudette got pregnant and was only 15 and unmarried. I think they sort of put Rosa Parks up to it after turning down a few other women as plaintiffs (I've not heard thats what they did, and she may well have done it on her own but all knew the frustration with finding a plaintiff, including Rosa).

As a lawyer, they did the right thing IMHO. Having a more sympathetic plaintiff helped them win. Same thing happened in Furman v. Ga, the death penalty case that outlawed it in this country for many years. The argument in Furman was that blacks were receiving the DP at a far greater rate than whites for the same or similar crimes.