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Claudette Colvin

African-American civil rights activist

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born: 1939
died: 2026
age at death: 86
known for: civil rights advocate, unlicensed assistive personnel

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Claudette Colvin was an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months before the similar, more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.

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