"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. 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. 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. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based 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. Claudette Colvin is the National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, a Newbery Honor Book, A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book.
Title: Clues to the Universe
Author: Li, Christina
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Category: Tweens Fiction
Binding: Paperback
Subject: Social Situations
Collection: Biography & Autobiography
Reading Age: 8 - 12 years
No. Of Pages: 160 pages
Langauage: English
ISBN-13: 9780312661052
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Amazon Ranking Category 1: Books on Civil & Human Rights for Young Adults
Amazon Ranking Category 2: Historical Biographies for Young Adults
Amazon Ranking Category 3: Biographies of Women for Young Adults