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Months Before Rosa Parks Made Headlines, Claudette Colvin Refused to Give Up Her Seat for a White Woman on a Segregated Bus
Colvin, a lesser-known figure who took a stand against racial discrimination as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, has died ...
The unsung Civil Rights icon was arrested at 15 years old for violating bus segregation ordinances in Alabama in 1955.
As a 15-year-old, Colvin refused to move after a bus driver complained that she was sitting near two white girls in violation ...
Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery ...
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when ...
Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...
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.
U.S. civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in ...
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Claudette Colvin, civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a bus, dies at 86
Civil Rights activist Claudette Colvin passed away on Jan. 13, 2025, at the age of 86. Here's what to know about her cause of ...
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested March 1955 for bus seat refusal before Rosa Parks, dies at 86. Plaintiff in ...
Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a White woman in ...
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