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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Philip Hoose · 2009 · 143 pages
On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. In her own words, Claudette gives a detailed look at segregated life in 1950s Memphis and the start of the civil rights movement.
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