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=Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice by Phillip Hoose=

Claudette Colvin is an African American who lived in Montgomery, Alabama during the time of the segregration laws. She lived in the King Hill District and attended Booker T. Washington High School. While others worried about how they looked she worried and wondered why the African Americans were not treated fairly. So she finally decided to take a stand. On the way to school one day she refused to give up her seat to a white woman on the bus. The police came and arrested her. Within a day, everybody had heard of "the girl that got arrested". Nine months after this, Rosa Parks did the same thing and days after the infamous bus boycotts began. Read this interesting book to find out more about Claudette Colvin. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Claudette is African American girl in the 1950’s. She has always hated how racist everyone is, and that everyone wants to look like a white person and straighten there hair. But Claudette is different. She wants to stand up for her culture. One day When Claudette was riding home on the bus there weren’t any seats in the back so she sat in the front. A white person boarded the bus and wanted her seat. Claudette refused to get up and stand so she could have the seat. The bus driver kept telling her to move but she wouldn’t so they called the police. Claudette was too stubborn to move for them either so the dragged her off the bus and into a police car and put her in hand cuffs. She didn’t spend to long in jail but she did have a court date. Her mom didn’t mind that she did this cause she was trying to prove a point. They ended up taking all but one of her charges off. People were mad that they won’t change the bus law so they decided to start a boycott. No African American was supposed to ride the bus until this law was changed. They had a transportation thing called MIA. For a long time they used this system until the band it in court. They end up having a second court date.



Author Phillip Hoose and Claudette Colvin at the National Book Awards

At the awards ceremony Phillip Hoose said: “Unreal, I thank everyone in the room and everyone at Farrar, Straus and Giroux,” said Hoose with Colvin at his side as he accepted the award at a Wednesday night black tie ceremony at New York City’s Cipriani restaurant. “I thank this woman beside me whose story was about to disappear. We got to tell an untold story.” In an interview with School Library Journal Hoose said, He was pleased that today’s kids are moved by the story. “I know they hear the story of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks every Martin Luther King Day and Black History Month, but the immediacy of it, what it would have felt like, how humiliating it was, how unfair it was every day, I think the emotional part of that is fading,” Hoose said. “I’m glad to restore it, to try to help. It’s a part of American history that really needs to be remembered.

"Why Can't I Be Treated Fairly?"

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