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Claudette Colvin
Twice Toward Justice
By Hoose, Phillip
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37431-322-7
- Publisher
- Kroupa Farrar
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2009
Gr 6-Up In Montgomery, AL, in March 1955, 15-year-old Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. She was arrested, and although she received some help from local civil rights leaders, they decided that the sometimes-volatile teen was not suitable to be the public face of a mass protest. Later that year, Rosa Parks sparked the famous bus boycott. Colvin was left with a police record and soon faced the additional problems of an unwed pregnancy and expulsion from school. In spite of those troubles, she consented ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2009
It's 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, and fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin is in the thick of things. She refuses to give up her seat on the bus (nine months before Rosa Parks) and is also one of the plaintiffs in the federal case that ends segregated buses, yet her story remains largely unknown. Hoose fashions a compelling narrative that balances the momentous events of the civi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Starred Review on January 1, 2009
In 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, fifteen-year-old Colvin refused to give up her seat on the bus. Hoose fashions a compelling narrative that b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
