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Jan 14 • 02:29 UTC • 🇮🇹 Italy • La Repubblica

Claudette Colvin, symbol of American civil rights, has died at 86

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama, has passed away at the age of 86 in Texas.

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