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Colvin\u2019s arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a segregated bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement in the US.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Claudette Colvin, who helped to ignite the modern civil rights movement in the US after refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus, has died aged 86.<\/p>\n Colvin was 15 when she was arrested on a bus in Montgomery, nine months before Rosa Parks gained international fame for also refusing to give up her seat.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Colvin died of natural causes in Texas, according to a statement from her legacy foundation on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Colvin was detained on March 2, 1955, after a bus driver called the police to complain that two Black girls were sitting near two white women in violation of segregation laws. Colvin refused to move when asked, leading to her arrest.<\/p>\n \u201cI remained seated because the lady could have sat in the seat opposite me,\u201d Colvin told reporters in Paris in April 2023.<\/p>\n \u201cShe refused because\u2026 a white person wasn\u2019t supposed to sit close to a negro,\u201d Colvin said.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople ask me why I refused to move, and I say history had me glued to the seat,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Colvin was briefly imprisoned for disturbing public order. The following year, she became one of four Black female plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit challenging segregated bus seating in Montgomery.<\/p>\n The case was successful, impacting public transportation throughout the US, including trains, aeroplanes and taxis.<\/p>\n Colvin\u2019s arrest occurred at a time of growing frustration over how Black people were being treated on Montgomery\u2019s bus system. The arrest of Parks in December 1955 triggered the start of the yearlong Montgomery Bus Boycott.<\/p>\n The boycott propelled the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr into the national limelight and is considered the start of the modern civil rights movement.<\/p>\n \u201cShe leaves behind a legacy of courage that helped change the course of American history,\u201d the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation said in a statement.<\/p>\n Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed said Colvin\u2019s action \u201chelped lay the legal and moral foundation for the movement that would change America\u201d.<\/p>\n Colvin\u2019s role in helping to trigger the modern civil rights movement is often overshadowed by the actions of Parks, and Reed said her bravery \u201cwas too often overlooked\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cClaudette Colvin\u2019s life reminds us that movements are built not only by those whose names are most familiar, but by those whose courage comes early, quietly, and at great personal cost,\u201d Reed added.<\/p>\n While Colvin\u2019s arrest helped to bring an end to racial segregation in the US, there are concerns from civil rights groups that President Donald Trump is looking to roll back policies on social progress.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, the largest civil rights group in the US said that Trump was being deceptive in his claims that civil rights hurt white people.<\/p>\n In an interview from last week published by The New York Times, Trump said he believed civil rights-era protections resulted in white people being treated unfairly.<\/p>\n The comments came after Trump was asked whether protections that began in the 1960s with the passage of the Civil Rights Act resulted in discrimination against white men, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n \u201cIt accomplished some very wonderful things, but it also hurt a lot of people \u2013 people that deserve to go to a college or deserve to get a job were unable to get a job,\u201d Trump was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a reverse discrimination,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In response, NAACP President Derrick Johnson said Trump was \u201clying through his teeth\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cTrump does this all the time. He deliberately invents a false reality to lay the groundwork for policies that further benefit the top one percent by privatising government services and stripping resources away from underserved communities,\u201d said Johnson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Colvin\u2019s arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a segregated bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement in the US. 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