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Getty Imagesrefused to give up her seat for a white person on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama - nine months before Rosa Parks did the same. She was arrested and went on to challenge the law in court as a plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, which ultimately found bus segregation in Montgomery to be unconstitutional.became the first woman elected to Congress.
The record-breaking Australian swimmer advocated for women to be able to wear a one-piece bathing suit instead of dresses with stockings — and she was arrested for it. She wore a bathing suit that left her arms bare and cut off at her mid-thigh in 1907, a look that got her arrested in Massachusetts for indecency. The popularity of her swimsuit at the time led her to launch her own swimwear line.
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