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Claudette Colvin, American nurse and activist
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Claudette Colvin
African-American civil rights activist (born 1939)
Claudette Colvin is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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