US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dead at 86

Jan 13 (Reuters) - U.S. civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks’ similar but more famous act of defiance, died on Tuesday at age 86. Although she remained a largely unsung figure in the civil rights movement for decades, Colvin’s 1955 act of rebellion inspired Parks and others and helped form the basis for the federal lawsuit that outlawed racial segregation in U.S. public transportation. In one of the first publicized acts of civil disobedience against Montgomery’s Jim Crow rules governing city bus seating by race, Colvin refused to relinquish her seat for a white woman, as ordered by the driver, and stayed put until she was dragged off the bus by police. 🔗 Leggi su Internazionale.it

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US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dead at 86 - civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks' similar but more famous act ... msn.com

Unsung US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dies, aged 86 - Colvin's arrest for not giving up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement. msn.com

US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dies at 86 - Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus in 1955, months before Rosa Parks, has died aged 86, her foundation said on Tuesday. msn.com