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From NYT bestselling author Tracey Baptiste comes a singular picture book adapted for audio that is both a biography about Claudette Colvin the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott and a celebration of collective action
When fifteenyearold Claudette Colvin boarded a segregated bus on March 2 1955 she had no idea she was about to make history At school she was learning about abolitionists like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth which helped inspire her decision to refuse to give up her seat to a white woman which led to her arrest which began a crucial chain of events Rosa Parks sitin nine months later the organization of the Montgomery bus boycott by activists like Professor Jo Ann Robinson and Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the Supreme Court decision that Alabamas bus segregation was unconstitutionala major triumph for the civil rights movement
Because of Claudettes brave stand against injustice history was transformed Now its time for young readers to learn about this living legend her pivotal role in the civil rights movement and the power of one person reaching out to another in the fight for change
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