Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86

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Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86
Claudette Colvin in 1998. When she was ordered to move to the back of a bus in 1955, she refused: “History had me glued to the seat,” she said.

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Colvin, ClaudetteDeaths (Obituaries)Civil Rights and LibertiesBlack PeopleCivil Rights Movement (1954-68Demonstrations, Protests and RSegregation and DesegregationParks, RosaMontgomery (Ala)