Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86 NYT Par :Clay Risen 14 janvier 2026 à 02:06 Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand. © Dudley M. Brooks/The The Washington Post, via Roseboro Holdings and The Colvin Family Legacy/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesClaudette Colvin in 1998. When she was ordered to move to the back of a bus in 1955, she refused: “History had me glued to the seat,” she said.
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