With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of this icon. When you find out who she is, you will cry
Nearly a decade before her name entered history books—and nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested—a 15-year-old Black teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, quietly challenged segregation. That teenager was Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give up her bus seat in March 1955 marked one of the earliest acts of resistance in the modern civil rights movement. Colvin was arrested…