She stood up for her Constitutional rights nine months before Rosa Parks also refused to give up her seat, but Colvin was deemed an unworthy symbol of the movement since she was depicted as emotional and reckless. This case desegregated Montgomery’s buses and furthered the destruction of Jim Crow laws, but sadly Colvin remains an unspoken hero of the Civil Rights era. In an act of defiance, Colvin, a black teenager, refused to give up her seat to a white bus passenger and sparked a movement that would end in the landmark case of Browder vs. Blacks were not only socially inferior, but most were reduced to working laborious jobs, attending poorly funded schools, and remaining silent towards acts of unspeakable violence. In the American South, racial segregation divided citizens and created a social norm that allowed inequality that tipped in favor of whites. Phillip Hoose’s “Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice,” tells the story of a young pioneer who fought against racial segregation during one of the most turbulent periods in American history. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South.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.Ĭlaudette Colvin is the 2009 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature and a 2010 Newbery Honor Book.
Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. 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. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.'" – Claudette Colvin "When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.
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