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Colvin
6 months ago
Claudette Colvin's foundation announced on Tuesday that the civil rights icon, whose story flew under the radar for decades, had died.
Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer arrested for not giving up bus seat, dies aged 86 ⊖⊖
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Colvin refused to give up seat to white woman in Alabama in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ act of defiance
US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up he…
Unsung US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dies, aged 86 ⊖
Colvin's arrest for not giving up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.
Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer, dies at 86 ⊖⊖
Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person months before the famous case of Rosa Parks.
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