![]() ![]() ![]() She was sent to Birmingham to have her child, but returned to Montgomery to be part of the protests and live at home. She was young, from a poor family, and had a temper at times.Īs Claudette reeled from the lack of support from her friends and the community, she ran into personal trouble and ended up pregnant. Although Claudette received some help from local civil rights leaders, they decided that she was not suitable to be the public face of a mass protest. Her friends knew how angry she was at segregation and how unfairly the police treated her, but Claudette quickly found herself avoided or teased by her classmates. Claudette was an impassioned teenager who had just learned about her constitutional rights in her history class. ![]() On Main Montgomery, Alabama, fifteen year old Claudette Colvin refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice was just nominated for the National Book Award, and it's a book well worth seeking out. But few know that before Rosa Parks started her protest, there was a brave young teen who challenged the segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama. Most American school children know the story of Rosa Parks. ![]()
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