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Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement, has died at age 86, her foundation ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death ...