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.

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010.Ĭolvin, Claudette 1939- Juvenile literature African Americans Alabama Montgomery Biography Juvenile literature African American civil rights workers Alabama Montgomery Biography Juvenile literature African American teenage girls Alabama Montgomery Biography Juvenile literature African Americans Segregation Alabama Montgomery History Juvenile literature Segregation in transportation Alabama Montgomery History Juvenile literature Montgomery (Ala.) Biography Juvenile literature Montgomery (Ala.) Race relations History 20th century Juvenile literature Colvin, Claudette 1939- African Americans Biography Women Biography African American civil rights workers African Americans Segregation History Segregation in transportation History Montgomery (Ala.) Biography Montgomery (Ala.) Race relations History 20th century Colvin, Claudette 1939- African Americans Montgomery (Ala.) Biography Civil rights Montgomery (Ala.) Biography African Americans Civil rights Montgomery (Ala.) History Segregation in transportation Montgomery (Ala.) History Women Biography Montgomery (Ala.) Biography Montgomery (Ala. In CLAUDETTE COLVIN: TWICE TOWARD JUSTICE (Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2009) National Book Award finalist Phillip Hoose introduces Claudette. 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 se. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose is a young adult (YA) nonfiction book published in 2015. 'When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.

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