Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer arrested for not giving up bus seat, dies aged 86
- Posted on January 14, 2026
- By The Guardian
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Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer arrested for not giving up bus seat, dies aged 86
Colvin refused to give up seat to white woman in Alabama in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ act of defiance
