Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose
A moving and fascinating biography about Claudette Colvin, a woman whose name has been overshadowed by Rosa Parks in the Civil Rights Movement.
In the mid-1950s Claudette refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama for a white passenger and was arrested. She was arrested and dragged by her wrists and ankles off the of the bus by the police. But Claudette was 15 years old and lived in the lower class neighborhood of town. Shortly after her arrest she became an unwed pregnant teenager and wasn’t considered by the local civil rights leaders as an appropriate person to use as an example for the movement. Nine months later, Rosa Parks would refuse to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger beginning the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Hoose carried out extensive interviews with Colvin and we get to know her story and her rightful place in history. Black and white photos and newspaper articles are included in the book.
This is a great information book for middle grade and high school students with bibliography information in the back.
Winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and a 2010 Newbery Honor.
