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Claudette Colvin, resisted Bus Segregation, before Rosa Parks , by 9 months

audette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the African-American civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the more publicized Rosa Parks incident by nine months. @Curionic

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