US civil rights icon Claudette Colvin dies, aged 86 - dw.com
Source: dw.com — January 14, 2026
US civil rights icon Claudette Colvin dies, aged 86 January 14, 2026Claudette Colvin, who became an US civil rights pioneer after her detention for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955, has died aged 86, her foundation has said.