Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer, dies at 86
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Claudette Colvin, a pioneer of the US Civil Rights movement, has died at age 86. In 1955, at the age of 15, Colvin was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person, nine months before Rosa Parks' similar act of defiance. Colvin's protest and subsequent arrest challenged Montgomery's bus segregation policies and was part of a legal case that led to a Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on buses. Despite being the first to be arrested for this act, her story remained largely unknown until a book about her was published in 2009. Colvin later became a nurse in New York and died in Texas.
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