Claudette Colvin in Podcasts
personClaudette Colvin, American civil rights activist and early protester against segregation.
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Claudette Colvin, who was arrested in 1955 for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus, has died at the age of 86.
Colvin was just 15 years old in 1955 when she defied repeated orders to move on the segregated bus.
Claudette Colvin, who was arrested in 1955 for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus, has died at the age of 86.
Colvin was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not giving up her bus seat to a white woman months before Rosa Parks did the same thing, as NPR's Debbie Elliott reports.
She too was arrested for breaking Alabama laws that said a black passenger had to yield their seat if a white person wanted it. But her story remained relatively unknown for decades. Now Colvin, whose actions helped to end racial segregation in the US, has died at the age of 86. Ella Bicknell looks back at her life.
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