Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

What happened on March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person? Answer: Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to move out of her seat for a white person. Author Phillip Hoose interviewed Claudette Colvin and researched immensely to weave Colvin's words and other facts that tell the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and trial that actually resulted in a victory for the Negro community of Alabama. Claudette Colvin was one of four plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit who put the City of Montgomery on trial and she was just a teenager! Read this story and learn about this courageous and often overlooked heroic young woman who fought Jim Crow and stood up for her Constitutional Rights. This well written nonfiction book is filled with photographs, primary sources and sidebars of background information to give you a great history of the civil rights movement in Alabama in the 1950s.