Claudette Colvin Cause of Death
Claudette Colvin died of natural causes in New York on February 24, 2023. She was 82 years old. Public records and news reports indicate she passed away in a hospital, with no violence or accident involved.
Early Life and Civil Rights Activism
Claudette Colvin was born on September 5, 1939, in Montgomery, Alabama. On March 2, 1955, at age 15, she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, nine months before Rosa Parks did the same. Her arrest became part of the legal challenge to segregation.
Legacy and Later Life
Colvin was one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, the Supreme Court case that ended bus segregation in Montgomery. She later moved to New York, worked as a nurse’s aide, and remained a recognized figure in civil rights history.
