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Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin. By Sam Arnold-Boyd. http://www.amazon.com/Claudette-Colvin-Toward-Justice-Addams/dp/0374313229. If you were told that you needed to give up your seat on a crowded bus or be arrested, what would you do?. http://stufffromthelab.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/claudette-colvin-2/.

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Claudette Colvin

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  1. Claudette Colvin By Sam Arnold-Boyd http://www.amazon.com/Claudette-Colvin-Toward-Justice-Addams/dp/0374313229

  2. If you were told that you needed to give up your seat on a crowded bus or be arrested, what would you do? http://stufffromthelab.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/claudette-colvin-2/

  3. Claudette Colvin’s Early Life • She grew up in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1940s and 1950s during SEGREGATION (“Coloreds” had to stay separate from whites.) • She couldn’t play in the park near her house – It was for “Whites Only.” • Her sister died on Claudette’s 13th birthday. She became very angry. http://sunnynash.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/swimming-sign.jpg

  4. Buses in Montgomery in the 1950s • Blacks had to pay, then get off and enter through the back door. • Buses had 10 seats in the front for whites. • Blacks could not sit in the seats for whites, even if they were empty. http://jamesmeredith-ce.blogspot.com/

  5. March 2, 1955 • Claudette, 15, was seated on the bus and refused to give her seat to a white lady. • “History had me glued to my seat,” she said. • She was very scared when she was arrested and taken to jail. (Blacks were not treated well in jail.) http://www.core-online.org/History/montgomery%20boycott.htm

  6. Claudette was a leader! • She believed in herself. • She had courage. • She stood up for her beliefs. • She inspired others: On Dec. 2, 1955 Rosa Parks followed her example and started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

  7. Stand up for justice! "When you have a gut feeling that things aren't right and unfair, you should speak out," says Claudette Colvin. "If you have to stand up alone, stand up alone." http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-06-07/news/17925989_1_claudette-colvin-segregation-young-adults

  8. Resources that I used: • Student Resources in Context: "Who is the girl who came before Rosa Parks?" New Moon Girls Mar.-Apr. 2011: 33. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 12 Oct. 2011. • Book: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose

  9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Segregation_1938.jpg

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