Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
Claudette Colvin Refuses to Move: Courageous Kid of the Civil Rights Movement
- Courageous Kids
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 23 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£0.00 for first 30 days
Claudette Colvin Refuses to Move: Courageous Kid of the Civil Rights Movement
Buy Now for £4.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Summary
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. Eventually, Claudette's court case results in overturning Alabama's unconstitutional laws and provides greater freedom for black Americans everywhere.