Aurelia S. Browder v. William A. Gayle challenged the Alabama state statutes and Montgomery, Alabama, city ordinances requiring segregation on Montgomery buses.At age 15, on March 2, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman. A diagram of the Montgomery bus where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat was used in court to ultimately strike down segregation on the city's buses. City of Montgomery cases (1959 and 1974) dealt with segregation and its effects in Montgomery's public parks. Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon when she refused to leave her bus seat for a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. The following decisions show how the high court has wrestled with some of history's biggest social, legal, and political issues. 15yearold Claudette Colvin is arrested on March 2, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus. The advertisement singled out the Montgomery, Alabama, police department for its mistreatment of King and other civil rights protesters. Parks was convicted under city law, her lawyer filed a notice of appeal.