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Claudette Colvin ( born September 5, 1939 ) is a pioneer of the African-American civil rights movement.

She was the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the better known Rosa Parks incident by nine months.

The court case stemming from her refusal to give up her seat on the bus, Browder v. Gayle, decided by the U. S. District Court in February, 1956 and then by the United States Supreme Court in December, 1956, ended bus segregation in Alabama.