![]() ![]() Colvin’s life would never be the same.įor all her courage in standing up (or, more accurately, sitting down) against injustice, Colvin became a social pariah. ![]() Schoolmates had seen what happened and reported back to Colvin’s mother who immediately headed to the jail with the family’s reverend and bailed out the frightened teenager. Booked and fingerprinted, she was transferred to the adult city jail and thrown into a cell without even a phone call. “‘I recited the Lord’s Prayer and the Twenty-third Psalm over and over in my head, trying to push back the fear,'” she told Hoose. Winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, Philip Hoose‘s inspiring title brings much-needed focus on a brave 15-year-old girl who decided, “You just have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.'” In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks made history, young Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.Įven though Colvin did not resist arrest, she was violently dragged backwards off the bus by two police officers as she repeatedly screamed, “‘It’s my constitutional right!'” She was thrown into the back of a police car, handcuffed through the open window, and endured racist, sexually-charged verbal abuse all the way to the police station. ![]()
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