The book is largely chronological beginning with Claudette as a child and moving into adulthood. Hoose compliments the accounts with original black and white photos, newspaper cut outs from the time and text boxes that define some of the people and events mentioned in the narration. The author narrates the story with inserts of Claudette’s own words as she described the events that unfolded. The story is laid out in a way to provide multiple accounts of what happened during this time.
Hoose tells the story of Claudette, her checkered upbringing in the poorest of neighborhoods, her inspiration that led to the stance on the bus, her relationship with Rosa Parks and the events that caused her to be overlooked as a Civil Rights leader. Yes, before there was Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin. History has largely overlooked the story of Claudette Colvin, the fifteen year old girl that sparked a flurry of controversy in Montgomery, Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on the bus.
This book tells the story of one of the key unsung heroes during the Civil Rights movement.
New York: Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009. Indeed they were, but many will be surprised that, say, Rosa Parks's resistance was not spontaneous but planned out in advanced after Claudette's spontaneous resistance.Hoose, Phillip M. Further, many members of the Montgomery NAACP were interested in provoking a reaction from the city in order to make blacks look like the victims of oppression. The NAACP had been against it for the entire twentieth century, up to the 1950s, when they helped to end it. Apparently, members of the Montgomery NAACP had opposed bus segregation for some time and felt that it was a particularly egregious form of segregation. It is particularly interesting for its presentation of the pre-Rosa Parks and pre-Montgomery boycott nature of the Civil Rights movement. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice seems to be first and foremost a story about the beginnings and successes of the Civil Rights movement.
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