claudette colvin twice toward justice by phillip hoose

Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders.

On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' - Claudette Colvin Montgomery (Ala.) - Race relations - History - 20th century - Juvenile literature.When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. Montgomery (Ala.) - Biography - Juvenile literature. Segregation in transportation - Alabama - Montgomery - History - Juvenile literature. Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:Ĭolvin, Claudette, 1939- Juvenile literature.Īfrican Americans - Alabama - Montgomery - Biography - Juvenile literature.Īfrican American civil rights workers - Alabama - Montgomery - Biography - Juvenile literature.Īfrican American teenage girls - Alabama - Montgomery - Biography - Juvenile literature.Īfrican Americans - Segregation - Alabama - Montgomery - History - Juvenile literature. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.Ĭhapter Three: 'We Seemed to Hate Ourselves.'Ĭhapter Four: 'It's My Constitutional Right!'Ĭhapter Five: 'Have You Ever Heard of Her?'Ĭhapter Seven: 'Another Negro Woman Has Been Arrested.'Ĭhapter Eight: Second Front, Second Chance

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Claudette colvin twice toward justice by phillip hoose