claudette colvin twice toward justice book

Claudette Colvin had done the same nine months before. Rosa Parks was not the first woman to refuse to give up her seat on a bus for a white person. (Feb.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Hoose's evenhanded account investigates Colvin's motives and influences, and carefully establishes the historical context so that readers can appreciate both Colvin's maturity and bravery and the boycott leadership's pragmatism. Because Colvin had been tearful in the period following her 1955 conviction, when her classmates shunned her, she was deemed too 'emotional' to place at the center of the bus boycott by the time Parks assumed that position, Colvin was disgraced: pregnant but not married. History) introduces readers to a resolute and courageous teenager and explores the politics of the NAACP and bus-boycott leadership. Investigating Colvin's actions, asking why Rosa Parks's role has overshadowed Colvin's, Hoose ( We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. Gayle, a landmark case in which Montgomery's segregated bus system was declared unconstitutional. In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks triggered the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., by refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger, a 15-year-old Montgomery girl, Claudette Colvin, let herself be arrested and dragged off the bus for the same reason in 1956, Colvin was one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South.īased on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history. 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

“When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.

Claudette colvin twice toward justice book