Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the African American civil rights movement. She was the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the better known Rosa Parks incident by nine months. The court case stemming from her refusal to give up her seat on the bus, decided by the U.S. District Court, ended bus segregation in Alabama.
Colvin's pioneering effort was not publicized for long by Montgomery's black leaders because she was an unmarried pregnant woman.
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