Gray Line Tennessee will be adding seat belts to school busses in the next two years. Staff at one local bus company decided they are not going to wait for regulations to change.

Fresh out of law school, Gray represented 15 year-old Claudette Colvin, who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person — nine months before Parks did the same thing.

Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old student from Montgomery, Ala., when she refused to yield her bus seat to a white passenger. But she has been largely forgotten in civil rights history.

Along with a university professor, Jo Ann Robinson, Gray planned the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He became a lawyer for 15-year-old Claudette Colvin and for Rosa Parks.

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Gray said it’s the high seats on school buses that those against the seatbelts said would keep students safe in small crashes. However, the problem comes when there’s a more extreme crash.