Claudette Colvin, Whose Defiance Helped End Bus Segregation, Dies at 86 - Capital B News
Source: Capital B News — January 13, 2026
Nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks’s famous act of defiance, a 15-year-old Black girl named Claudette Colvin had already refused to surrender her seat on a segregated bus on March 2, 1955. Even as the police arrived, the high school student refused to move, holding her ground.