US civil rights ⁠pioneer Claudette Colvin dies aged 86

US civil rights ⁠pioneer Claudette Colvin dies aged 86

US civil rights ⁠pioneer Claudette Colvin - arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks' similar act of defiance - has died age 86. [Continue Reading]

RTÉ News (Ireland) RTÉ News (Ireland) | 14 Jan 2026 05:09
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