Civil Rights legend Claudette Colvin dies at 86

Funeral arrangements announced for Civil Rights pioneer Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86

Claudette Colvin, Civil Rights Pioneer Who Refused To Give Up Seat On Segregated Bus, Dies

Claudette Colvin (September 5, 1939 – January 13, 2026) was an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months before the similar, more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark th

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