Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus at age 15 helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.
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Claudette Colvin, renowned civil rights activist who refused to give up bus seat to white woman, dies aged 86
Claudette Colvin, the American civil rights pioneer who first refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 86. Ashley Roseboro, a spokesperson for ...
Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.
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