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Claudette Colvin

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African-American civil rights activist (1939-2026)

United StatesLived 1939 to 2026 · aged 86
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Claudette Colvin was an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.

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Colvin at the San Francisco Public Library, January 2005.Colvin at the San Francisco Public Library, January 2005.Colvin speaking at Bethany Baptist Church for Women's History Month, 2014Colvin speaking at Bethany Baptist Church for Women's History Month, 2014Cover of Phillip Hoose's Twice Towards JusticeCover of Phillip Hoose's Twice Towards Justice

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Claudette Colvin was an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months before the similar, more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.

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Lived 1939 to 2026 · aged 86
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