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Jan 13 • 23:53 UTC • 🇫🇷 France • France24

US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dies at 86

Claudette Colvin, a US civil rights pioneer known for her courageous act of refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus in 1955, has passed away at the age of 86.

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