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Interview Excerpt of Ms. Claudette Colvin
No full textIn 1955, Claudette Colvin was a student attending Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery, Alabama. As a fifteen-year-old Colvin refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a White woman on March 2, 1955. Over nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Colvin was arrested, handcuffed, escorted off the bus and then jailed. Colvin then agreed to became one of the four plaintiffs in the Browder v. Gayle case that ended segregation on Montgomery buses. The Claudette Colvin interview was recorded at the Renaissance Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama on April 25, 2018
Your Story and My Story: GenreStudy on Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice [6th grade]
No full textThis unit is centered on sixth grade standards regarding autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, author\u27s purpose, and literary devices. Students will read Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice along with excerpts from memoirs and other biographies. Students will analyze each of the genres and identify connections between the selected works. For the culminating performance assessment students will write their own autobiography, biography, or memoir
Phillip Hoose: 2025 Irma Black Award Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Phillip Hoose gives an acceptance speech for Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!, illustrated by Bea Jackson (Straus and Giroux)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/irma_black_awards/1019/thumbnail.jp
21st Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major For Justice Awards Dinner, April 7, 2000
No full textEvelyn G. Lowery (center) poses for a photo with Lillie Brown (at left) and Claudette Colvin (at right) during the 21st Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major for Justice Awards dinner.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
