Claudette Colvin, a key figure in the civil rights movement, died at age 86 on Tuesday, and now the family has shared her funeral arrangements.
Colvin was arrested in Montgomery at just 15 years old on March 2, 1955 for violating segregation laws on the bus. Her arrest, which civil rights attorney Fred Gray described as an act that “gave all of us the encouragement and whatever we needed to be able to begin what developed into the Bus Boycott,” came nine months before Rosa Parks’ arrest and the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott…