Parks was arrested, but stood up and was not handcuffed and not frightened as Colvin was by being put in jail. The latter charge was the only one upheld on appeal because the justice system did not want to allow a further appeal on segregation. She was accused of disbeying the laws of segregation and assaulting a police officer. Eventually police were called after some confusion about who had the authority and Colvin was arrested, handcuffed and dragged to jail.
That law was just ignored by the city and the drivers. It said you did not have to give up a seat if there were none others available in the front of the rear section of the bus reserved for blacks. She made it possible for Parks to start the movement to end segregation in Montgomery, Alabama and the rest of the country.Ĭlaudette refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white person and knew she was within her rights by city law. Less than a year before Parks was arrested on December 2, 1955, Colvin underwent the same experience in a more harrowing way. Her name belongs above that of Rosa Parks in helping overcome race injustice in the South and all of The United States. True American Hero at 15 submitted by michrigan on March 24, 2017, 7:56pm There is nothing anyone can say to do justice to the life of this girl at the age of 15. REVIEWS & SUMMARIES School Library Journal Review Gayle - Rage in Montgomery - History's door.īased 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. Kids Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Social Activists / Colvin, Claudetteįirst cry - Jim Crow and the detested number ten - Coot - "We seemed to hate ourselves" - "It's my constitutional right!" - "There's the girl who got arrested" - "Crazy" times - "Another Negro woman has been arrested" - Second front, second chance - Playing for keeps - Browder v. On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch
Call Number: R Newbery Honor 2010, Y 921 Colvin, Claudette, Kids Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Social Activists / Colvin, Claudette
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