Claudette Colvin, who at 15 refused to give her seat on the bus to a white woman in Alabama, has died at 86.
nyti.msClaudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand.
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