Claudette Colvin: Forgotten Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

by Phillip Thomas Tucker

Overview

Nearly a year before Rosa Parks became the public face of the Civil Rights Movement, a fifteen-year-old student of Montgomery, Alabama, made her own heroic stand in defying white authority and discriminatory segregation laws. Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman on Wednesday, March 2, 1955 as required by law. Inspired by the courage of freedom fighter and Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman to maintain her defiant stance, Claudette was arrested and thrown into the city jail, despite being only a juvenile. Most importantly, Claudette's brave actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott Movement and the Civil Rights Movement, inspiring not only Rosa Parks, but also Dr. Martin Luther King. This is the unforgettable story of an American heroine who helped to change the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798644051748
Publisher:	Independently Published
Publication date:	05/12/2020
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

Phillip Thomas Tucker, Ph.D., has been recognized as "the Stephen King of History." Tucker has authored more than 70 groundbreaking books in history and more than 130 works, both books and scholarly articles, in total in the field of history. After earning a Ph.D. in History from St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1990, the author embarked upon a more than 20-year career with the Department of Defense primarily in Washington, D.C. Dr. Tucker has specialized on a wide variety of aspects of the American experience. He has focused heavily on some of the most iconic moments in the annals of American history, including books like Alexander Hamilton's Revolution, Death at the Little Bighorn, and How the Irish Won the American Revolution. In addition, the author has also written a great deal about the lives of remarkable African Americans and dynamic women of all colors, who deserve greater recognition for their outstanding courage and character at this late date. He has written four volumes of the groundbreaking Harriet Tubman Series and four volumes of the Cathy Williams Female Buffalo Soldier Series. Other books by one of America's most prolific authors include Mulan and the Modern Controversary and Exodus From the Alamo, The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth. Tucker lives and writes full-time at his home in Central Florida.