Civil Rights Trailblazer Claudette Colvin, Who Defied Bus Segregation Nine Months Before Rosa Parks, Dies at 86
Claudette Colvin: A Quiet Giant of the Civil Rights Movement Dies at 86 Claudette Colvin, an early civil rights activist whose courageous stand against Montgomery bus segregation predated Rosa Parks’s, has passed away at the age of 86. Her death occurred in Texas. Claudette Colvin was a true pioneer who bravely defied segregation laws, and…