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Civil rights champion gets recognition

As a teenager, Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a White person on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. It's something she did nine months before Rosa Parks' same act of civil disobedience. After many years of being overlooked, her struggle is finally being recognized by people, including Vice President Kamala Harris.
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