Let me say that our system of government does not copy the institutions of our neighbors. it is more the case of our being a model to others than of our imitating anyone else. our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands, not of a minority, but of the whole people. —pericles's funeral oration which early society is described in this excerpt?

our current president donald trump

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.