In this Newbery Honor book, Hoose tells the story of Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl who took a stand for civil rights just months before Rosa Parks.
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Claudette Colvin is the National Book Award Winner for Young People\'s Literature, a Newbery Honor Book, A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist, and a Robert F.
Based 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.
Gayle , the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South.
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.
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.
You can\'t sugarcoat it.
When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.
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In this Newbery Honor book, Hoose tells the story of Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl who took a stand for civil rights just months before Rosa Parks
