 In 2007, Bryant disclosed that she had fabricated the most sensational part of her story in 1955.On December 1, 1955, nine months after a 15-year-old high school student, Claudette Colvin, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and was arrested, Rosa Parks did the same thing.Parks soon became the symbol of the resulting Montgomery Bus Boycott and received national publicity.