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Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
“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 be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette...