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Jan 14 • 02:13 UTC • 🇩🇪 Germany • FAZ

Claudette Colvin: She didn't want to give up her seat for a white woman

Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin has passed away at 86, remembered for her courageous stand against segregation in a 1955 bus incident that paved the way for significant change in the USA.

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