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Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin

1939 - 2026

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Claudette Colvin, a determined and courageous figure in the early civil rights movement, died January 13, 2026, of natural causes while under hospice care in Texas. She was 86. Colvin's act of defiance on March 2, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, started when a bus driver ordered her to give up her...

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