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

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Claudette Colvin sits for a portrait, Feb. 5, 2009, in New York.

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement.

(Image credit: Julie Jacobson)