Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 apprehension for refusing to springiness up her spot connected a segregated Montgomery autobus helped spark the modern civilian rights movement, has died. She was 86.

Her decease was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation. Ashley D. Roseboro of the enactment confirmed she died successful Texas.

Colvin was arrested months earlier Rosa Parks gained planetary fame earlier refusing to springiness up her spot connected a segregated bus.

FILE - Claudette Colvin answers a question astatine a quality league arsenic she sits adjacent to her erstwhile attorney, Fred Gray, Oct. 26, 2021, successful Montgomery, Ala.

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A autobus operator called constabulary connected March 2, 1955, to kick that 2 Black girls were sitting adjacent 2 achromatic girls successful usurpation of segregation laws. One of the Black girls moved toward the rear erstwhile asked, a constabulary study said, but Colvin refused and was arrested. She was 15 astatine the time.

Colvin became a named plaintiff successful the landmark suit that outlawed radical segregation connected Montgomery's buses.