Claudette Colvin: Forgotten Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

Tucker, Phillip Thomas

ISBN 13: 9798644051748

Published by Independently published (edition ), 2020

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It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Claudette Colvin: Forgotten Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
• Publisher: Independently published (edition )
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798644051748
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Nearly a year before Rosa Parks became the public face of the Civil Rights Movement, a fifteen-year-old student of Montgomery, Alabama, made her own heroic stand in defying white authority and discriminatory segregation laws. Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman on Wednesday, March 2, 1955 as required by law. Inspired by the courage of freedom fighter and Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman to maintain her defiant stance, Claudette was arrested and thrown into the city jail, despite being only a juvenile. Most importantly, Claudette’s brave actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott Movement and the Civil Rights Movement, inspiring not only Rosa Parks, but also Dr. Martin Luther King. This is the unforgettable story of an American heroine who helped to change the world.