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This non-fiction book for young adults recounts the experiences of Claudette Colvin in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1950s. At fifteen she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, nine months before Rosa Parks did the same. The book focuses on her part in the Civil Rights Movement and her involvement in the Browder v. Gayle court case.
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