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"I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone."

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About Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin is an American civil rights activist known for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Her act of resistance occurred months before Rosa Parks' widely known protest. She was also a plaintiff in the Browder v. Gayle case challenging bus segregation.

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