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I didn't know she had done that before Rosa Parks. --- Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86. "History had me glued to the seat." Her refusal predates Rosa Parks' similar stand, but she was deemed "too dark-skinned and too poor" to be a civil rights symbol.

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Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a Whit... Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86. “History had me glued to the seat.” H https://kottke.org/26/01/0048181-claudette-colvin-who-refu

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