You claim to value standing up to government oppression, but here we have a prime example of someone who didn't just talk the talk but walked the walk, and yet you're concerned that she got too much credit. Who cares how much "mileage" she got out of her "15 minutes"? Fame is often arbitrary-- a matter of luck, being the right person in the right place at the right time. The thing that matters is that when it was her time in life to stand up and be counted, she did the right thing.
Claudette Colvin has actually gotten a bit of credit over the years as well, and yes I have heard of her. That she is less well known than Rosa Parks has nothing to do with Rosa Parks "taking all the credit", but with the fact that Rosa Parks, by virtue of who she was, had less baggage than Colvin did.
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