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3 unusual facts about Claudette Colvin


Claudette Colvin

The folk singer John McCutcheon set the poem to music, sang and recorded "Claudette Colvin Goes to Work," with Rita Dove speaking one line, on his CD Mightier than the Sword (2006).

Phillip Hoose wrote a biography, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, which won the 2009 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

Phillip Hoose

It features Claudette Colvin as an African-American civil rights pioneer, resisting segregation in Montgomery, Alabama.


Aurelia Browder

Browder v. Gayle was filed listing five plaintiffs—Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, Jeanette Reese, Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith.


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