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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
By Phillip Hoose
133 pages; Farrar/Melanie Kroupa
A biography of Claudette Colvin, the very courageous teenager who stood up for her constitutional rights when she was just 16 years old. She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus nine months before the more famous action by Rosa Parks.
Printed from Oprah.com on Thursday, May 23, 2013
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