Claudette Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955 was a key moment in the US civil rights movement. "History had me glued to that seat," she later said.

Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person months before the famous case of Rosa Parks.

Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person months before the famous case of Rosa Parks.

Jan 13 - U.S. civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks' similar but more famous act of defiance, died on Tuesday at age 86. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer, has died at 86, remembered for her courageous stand against segregation in 1955.

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer, has died at 86, remembered for her courageous stand against segregation in 1955.

Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a White woman in segregated Alabama, has died, according to her foundation. She was 86.