Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl who refused to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus in 1955, inspiring the Civil Rights Movement, died at 86 due to natural causes in Texas.

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Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl who refused to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus in 1955, inspiring the Civil Rights Movement, died at 86 due to natural causes in Texas.
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