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On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama. Shouting "It's my constitutional right!" as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she'd had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child.

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.

Civil rights icon Claudette Colvin teams up with Phillip Hoose—author of the Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning blockbuster biography Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice—to tell her groundbreaking story. This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and...

Dans l’installation en réalité augmentée « Noire » (21 avril – 29 mai 2023), l’autrice Tania de Montaigne retrace l’histoire de Claudette Colvin, adolescente qui, le 2 mars 1955, dans l’État ségrégationniste de l’Alabama, refuse de laisser sa place à une passagère blanche dans un bus. Quelques mois plus tard, Rosa Parks répétera ce geste et c’est elle que l’Histoire retiendra. Ce podcast donne la parole à l’autrice et aux metteurs en scène et réalisateurs Stéphane Foenkinos et Pierre-Alain Giraud, qui expliquent la genèse du projet et les défis qu’il ...

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds! In this chapter book biography by award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome, readers learn about the amazing...

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, listeners can now get the first eight biographies in the chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds in one audio collection! She Persisted: Harriet Tubman...