Claudette Colvin Refuses to Move: Courageous Kid of the Civil Rights Movement (Courageous Kids)

by Ebony Joy Wilkins (Author) Mark Simmons (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: Courageous Kids

It's March 2, 1955, and an ordinary 15-year-old girl from Montgomery, Alabama is about to do something extraordinary.

When a white bus driver orders Claudette Colvin to give up her seat for a white passenger, she refuses to move. After Claudette is arrested, her brave actions help inspire Civil Rights leaders organize bus boycotts and perform similar acts to defy segregation laws. Eventually, Claudette's court case results in overturning Alabama's unconstitutional laws and provides greater freedom for black Americans everywhere.

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Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781496688033
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Capstone Press
Publication date
January 08, 2020
Series
Courageous Kids
BISAC categories
JNF018010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
JNF053140 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Prejudice & Racism
JNF007110 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
JNF025210 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/20th Century
JNF062010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Biography
JNF062020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | History
Library of Congress categories
African Americans
Biographies
20th century
Civil rights
Social conditions
Alabama
Montgomery
Montgomery (Ala.)
African American teenage girls
Colvin, Claudette
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 195
Little Maverick Reading List
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