Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer, dies at 86

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Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer, died at 86.
At 15, she refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks' similar protest.
Her arrest was largely unknown until a book about her experience was published in 2009.
Colvin was one of four plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case that ended bus segregation.
She felt inspired by Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth during her protest.
Later in life, she worked as a nurse in New York and died in Texas.

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