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Months Before Rosa Parks Made Headlines, Claudette Colvin Refused to Give Up Her Seat for a White Woman on a Segregated Bus

Colvin, a lesser-known figure who took a stand against racial discrimination as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, has died ...

Claudette Colvin: Civil rights icon who refused to move seats on segregated bus dies at 86

Colvin's act of defiance occurred months before Rosa Parks gained international recognition for a similar stand ...

Claudette Colvin, whose defiant act on a segregated Alabama bus played an unsung role in the early civil rights movement, dies

Claudette Colvin, a “bespectacled, studious looking high school student” who refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman ...

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

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
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Claudette Colvin's record cleared after refusing to move seat on segregated bus in 1955

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A judge has approved a request to wipe clean the court record of a Black woman who was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus in 1955, months ...

Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86

Colvin, at age 15, was arrested nine months before Rosa Parks gained international fame for also refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.
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Claudette Colvin, who helped spark civil rights movement by refusing to move bus seats, dies at 86

Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame before refusing to give up her seat on a segregated ...