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Because she was standing up for her rights. She had paid the same fare as the white passengers and when the driver ordered her out of seat, she did not think this was fair and refused to do so.

It was also a planned event as the previous, spontaneous Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith arrests had political problems for a supreme court trial.

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