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As a teenager, Colvin challenged Montgomery’s segregation law and prevailed. On a March day in 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Under Jim Crow ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose arrest 71 years ago as a teenager for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama helped ignite the civil rights movement, died Tuesday. She ...

Claudette Colvin, a pioneer in the civil rights movement, has died at the age of 86. As a 15-year-old, Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights champion arrested for not giving up her bus seat for a White woman in 1955, has died at the age of 86, her family and foundation announced Tuesday. "It is with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MONTGOMERY, AL - OCTOBER 26: Civil rights attorney Fred Gray, left, and Claudette Colvin, 82, listen during a press conference ...

Claudette Colvin, the civil rights pioneer who was arrested at age 15 on a Montgomery bus after she refused to move from her seat months before Rosa Parks did, has died. She was 86. Colvin’s act ...