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On the Bus with Rosa Parks is a book of poems by Rita Dove. [1] Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". [2]
Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1] [2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide.On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
Carver: A Life in Poems; Catherine, Called Birdy; Cedric the Forester; Charlotte's Web; Children of the Soil; The Chronicles of Prydain; Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa; Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice; Clearing Weather; The Codfish Musket; Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun; A Corner of the Universe; The Cow-Tail Switch, and ...
Colvin refused to give up her bus seat for a White woman months before Rosa Parks' act of defiance. Claudette Colvin's record expunged 66 years after refusing to give up seat Skip to main content
The juvenile record of civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has been expunged, 66 years after she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white woman.
In 1955, Claudette Colvin was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a White woman. That incident happened nine months before Rosa Parks. "History had me glued to the ...
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice; The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig; Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun; The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories; The Cowardly Lion of Oz; The Cozy Lion; Creatures of the Cosmos; The Crossing (Murphy book) Curses, Hexes and Spells
Colvin, then 15, was arrested in March 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus to a white rider. Claudette Colvin's arrest record expunged 66 years after she refused ...