![]() One great thing about Phillip Hoose's book Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice is that he finally makes clear ageism was the reason Colvin and Smith were treated differently from Parks. This time, they boycotted and the Montgomery Bus Boycott is widely seen today as the first major campaign of the Civil Rights Movement (since historians tend to overlook the student strike organized by Barbara Johns.) Unmasking Ageism Civil Rights leaders decided that, in arresting the 42-year-old woman, segregationists had gone too far. Then Rosa Parks, who had been intimately familiar with the Colvin case, did the same thing. ![]() Civil Rights leaders again declined to boycott. ![]() That woman was 18-year-old Mary Louise Smith. Several months later, another woman was arrested when she refused to give up her seat. Nixon and Martin Luther King considered organizing a boycott of the busses, but chose not to. In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin defied segregation laws by refusing to surrender her bus seat for a white passenger, choosing instead to be arrested. Now at long last there is one book about Claudette Colvin. ![]() ISBN: 0374313229.Äozens of books have been written about Rosa Parks. ![]() Claudette Colvin Known at Last, Known at LastĬlaudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (2009). ![]()
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