![]() ![]() “The lock fell into place with a heavy sound. ![]() ![]() The most powerful words in the book come from Colvin herself, who shares the pain and fear of her frightening experience and its aftermath firsthand. So why hasn’t history also made much of Claudette? The answer may surprise you…Author Philip Hoose takes you right to the tumultuous center of the Civil Rights Movement with this true story of a girl who fought back even when no one would fight for her. This happened nine months before Rosa Parks made her famous protest, and I KNOW you’ve heard of her. So she dared to challenge the city’s segregated bus laws that demanded an entire row of African Americans must get up if even just one White person wanted to sit down. ![]() From her activist-minded teachers, she knew it was her constitutional right to sit where she wanted on the bus, and the entire Montgomery police force couldn’t change that. She was scared out of her mind, but she was tired of being told she was less than just because of the color of her skin and the texture of her hair. She was dragged from the bus by two adult police officers, called “Thing†and “Whore,†and put in a jail cell. On a spring day in 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. ![]()
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