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Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86

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January 13, 2026
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Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86

Her 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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