克劳德特·科尔文(Claudette Colvin),一名15岁的民权活动家,1955年反抗公共汽车隔离,于86岁死于得克萨斯州。
Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old civil rights activist who defied bus segregation in 1955, died at 86 in Texas.
克劳黛特·科尔文是一位民权先驱,1955年15岁时拒绝放弃她在阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利的公交座位——比罗莎·帕克斯早九个月——去世时享年86岁。
Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, at age 15 in 1955—nine months before Rosa Parks—has died at 86.
她的违抗行为点燃了蒙哥马利Bus Boycott(Montgomery Bus Boycott)的火花,是标志性案件Browder诉Gayle案的一个关键部分,该案导致美国最高法院裁定公共汽车上的隔离违宪。
Her act of defiance helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was a key part of the landmark case Browder v. Gayle, which led to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.
尽管她的作用长期以来一直被蒙上阴影,但现在她已被公认为争取种族正义斗争中的基本人物。
Though her role was long overshadowed, she is now recognized as a foundational figure in the fight for racial justice.
她因自然原因于2026年1月13日在得克萨斯州逝世。
She passed away in Texas from natural causes on January 13, 2026.