American civil rights trailblazer Claudette Colvin dies at 86
Claudette Colvin, civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her bus seat before Rosa Parks, dies at 86
Claudette Colvin, the Alabama teenager whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus helped lay the legal groundwork for dismantling Jim Crow transit laws, has died at 86. She died under hospice care in Texas, a spokesperson for her family and the Claudette Colvin Foundation confirmed.
Colvin was 15 on March 2, 1955, when she defied a bus driver’s order to surrender her seat to a white woman in Montgomery, nine…