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Claudette Colvin, Civil Rights Pioneer Who Refused Bus Segregation Dies at 86

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Claudette Colvin, Civil Rights Pioneer Who Refused Bus Segregation Dies at 86
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Claudette Colvin, who was 15 when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955 and later became a named plaintiff in the case that ended bus segregation, has died at 86 in Texas. The death was announced by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation, and she is remembered as a pivotal early figure in the civil rights movement.

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  1. Claudette Colvin, who helped spark civil rights movement by refusing to move bus seats, dies at 86  PBS
  2. Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer, dies at 86  BBC
  3. Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86  CNN
  4. Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies  NPR
  5. Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86  The New York Times

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