resting_place children birth_place ethnicity name birth_date spouse article_title birth_name occupation
eastover , south carolina 3 eastover , south carolina african american sarah mae flemming brown 28 june 1933 john brown sarah mae flemming
 sarah mae flemming domestic worker
sarah mae flemming

sarah mae flemming brown -lrb- june 28 , 1933 -- june 16 , 1993 -rrb- was an african-american woman who was expelled from a bus in columbia , south carolina , seventeen months before rosa parks refused to surrender her seat on an alabama bus in 1955 .
flemming 's lawsuit against the bus company played an important role later in the parks case .
