How were the french revolution and the american revolution different?
a) the french revolutions were protesting a foreign colonial government while the american revolutionaries were fighting against their own government
b) the french revolution was led by powerful aristocrats while the american revolution was started by the common people
c) the american revolution was a violent military conflict while the american revolution was an intellectual and political debate led by enlightenment thinkers
d) the american revolution succeeded in establishing the long-term representative government while the french revolution eventually produced a dictatorship

answer: i looked it up

explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.