| #13319 in Books | Square Fish | 2010-12-21 | 2010-12-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.05 x12.57 x6.02l,.43 | File type: PDF | 160 pages | Great product!||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Claudette Colvin, little known, never 2 be 4-gotten.|By P. Andersen|Little known piece of American history, at least unknown to myself. I'd never heard of Claudette Colvin, she was a 14 year old girl, who refused to give up HER seat before Rosa Parks. Loads of black and white photos depicting the south of the 1950's and current photo's of Claudette Colvin and the aut|From School Library Journal|Starred . Grade 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
"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'" - Claudette Colvin 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. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found h...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Phillip Hoose. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
