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Story summary
- Claudette Colvin died at age 86, confirmed by the Claudette Colvin Foundation.
- On March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Her act led to her arrest nine months before Rosa Parks' protest.
- Colvin later became a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, which the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional.
- Her story remained largely overlooked until recent years.
