Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86 - The New York Times
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Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in 1955, has died at age 86. Her act of defiance helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the broader civil rights movement.
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