Proof you’re never too young to make an impact.
Nine months before Rosa Parks' famous arrest, 15-year-old Claudette Colvinin Alabama by refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery. She was arrested, and a year later was one of the original plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, a case that led the U.S. Supreme Court to declare bus segregation laws in Alabama and Montgomery unconstitutional.
Jazz Jennings was just 6 years old when she gave an interview to Barbara Walters for a television special about transgender children. Since that time, she's continued to educate the world about what it means to be transgender. and YouTube star has a TLC show called"I Am Jazz" and co-wrote a children's book by the same name. Now 17, she regularly speaks out about issues affecting the trans community.In 1963, 9-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks joined thousands of fellow kids and teens in the Children's Crusade, a nonviolent demonstration in Birmingham to stand against segregation.
for her activism. Images from the Children's Crusade -- which highlighted the violent response from local authorities -- caused outrage around the world.At the age of 11, a Canadian girl named Capri Everitt set out to raise money for orphaned and abandoned children. She achieved this by traveling with her family to 80 countries, where she sang each national anthem in the national language.
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