Submitted by lluncheon on Tue, 2012-12-04 14:17
Nine months before Rosa Parks
refused to give up her bus seat
to a white passenger, 15-year-old
Claudette Colvin was violently
removed from a bus and held in
jail. The NAACP, however, did
not want a young and “emotional”
teenager as the face of
the bus boycott and a larger civil
rights movement. Claudette Colvin: Twice For Justice
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $19.95) by Phillip Hoose tells a
fuller story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, providing
an overview of history about life in Montgomery under
Jim Crow, the state of mind of many black and white
families at the time, and details about the lesser known
figures involved in igniting America’s civil rights movement.
Ages 12 up.