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Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin Dies at 86
Published 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Arrested at just 15 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Colvin later became a key plaintiff in the lawsuit that ended bus segregation, laying legal groundwork for the modern civil rights movement.
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