Staff Pick of the Week: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

This week's book pick is Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose.

In March of 1955, in segregated Montgomery, Alabama, Claudette Colvin decided not to give up her seat to a white woman on a bus. She was arrested and taken to jail, and later declared guilty for what she had done. Instead of supporting her, most of Colvin's high school classmates openly shunned and gossiped about her, and Colvin began to wonder if she'd sacrificed everything by not giving up her seat that day. When almost a year later Rosa Parks made the same decision as Colvin and chose not to give up her bus seat, the revolution Colvin had started became a full blown boycott. While Claudette Colvin is not as well known as Rosa Parks, her act of courage changed everything.