Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer arrested for not giving up bus seat, dies aged 86 - The Guardian

Source: The Guardian — January 14, 2026

US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks’s similar but more famous act of defiance, died on Tuesday at age 86.

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