Overview
- The Claudette Colvin Foundation said she died of natural causes in southeast Texas while under hospice care.
- On March 2, 1955, the Montgomery teenager refused to give up her bus seat, was arrested, adjudicated delinquent for assault, and placed on indefinite probation.
- She became one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, the case led by attorney Fred Gray that overturned Montgomery’s bus segregation and influenced public transit nationwide.
- Colvin lived largely out of the spotlight for decades, working as a nursing aide in New York, with renewed recognition culminating in the expungement of her juvenile record in 2021.
- Public officials and civil-rights figures praised her often-overlooked courage, and her foundation said memorial arrangements will be announced.