Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
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"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 ... More
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Publisher | Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Binding | Hardcover (12 editions) |
Reading Level | Young Adults |
# of Pages | 144 |
ISBN-10 | 0374313229 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0374313227 |
Publication Date | 01/20/2009 |
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4/17/2010 Mary Sandford said: Wonderful, gave me a clearer understanding of the plight of Blacks which led to so much turmoil during my lifetime.
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