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“Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' And I did.”

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Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin, born on September 5, 1939, is a significant figure in the American civil rights movement. She is renowned for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, where she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, at the age of 15. This act of defiance was one of the first steps leading to the historic Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. more

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