Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justic..., Phillip Hoose
Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justic..., Phillip Hoose
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Author: Phillip Hoose

Narrator: Channie Waites

Unabridged: 3 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/10/2009


Synopsis

On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Shouting “It’s my constitutional right!” as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she’d had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child. But instead of being celebrated, as Rosa Parks would be when she took the same stand nine months later, Claudette found herself shunned by many of her classmates and dismissed as an unfit role model by the black leaders of Montgomery. Undaunted, she put her life in danger a year later when she dared to challenge segregation yet again — as one of four plaintiffs in the landmark busing case Browder v. Gayle. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of a major, yet little-known, civil rights figure whose story provides a fresh perspective on the Montgomery bus protest of 1955–56. Historic figures like Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks play important roles, but center stage belongs to the brave, bookish girl whose two acts of courage were to affect the course of American history.

About Phillip Hoose

Phillip Hoose is the widely-acclaimed author of books, essays, stories, songs, and articles, including the multi-award winning The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, the National Book Award Finalist We Were There, Too! Young People in US History and the Christopher Award-winning manual for youth activism It's Our World Too! Hoose is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and school presenter. He has also been featured at statewide book festivals, conferences, writing seminars, songwriting workshops for children, and musical performances. He lives in Portland, Maine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sunday on June 26, 2012

Appropriate for 8th graders and older. This is a beautiful book about the struggles of Claudette Colvin- not only in segregationist Montgomery, Alabama where her refusal to give her bus seat up to a white woman sparked the bigger bus boycott movement, but also in her own community where she was shun......more

Goodreads review by Monica on November 19, 2009

Wow --- I now see and agree with all the accolades heaped on this book. I'd had it sitting around for weeks before I reluctantly began reading it --- once I did I was engrossed. Hoose's research is remarkable, but it is the way he seamlessly interweaves Claudette's own memories with his third person......more

Goodreads review by Tara on March 11, 2014

On December 5 1955, African Americans in Montgomery Alabama started boycotting city buses to protest segregation. The boycott lasted 381 days prompted by the arrest of Rosa Parks for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger. Although Rosa Parks has been the face of integrated buses, ther......more

Goodreads review by Jazzy on May 27, 2021

A magnificent 5star book that should be a model for how non-fiction books can get straight to the point and tell a compelling story concisely and directly. In honor of that fact, I have edited and repeatedly re-edited this review to keep it short. While ostensibly about the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a......more

Goodreads review by Nicole ✨Reading Engineer✨ on March 13, 2017

To be honest the only reason I read this book was because I wanted to know more about Jim Crow Laws and there was only a handful of them at my library and this was one of them. But, it was a decent book overall. It told the story of Claudette Colvin, who before Rosa Parks, stood up to Jim Crow Laws a......more