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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice By Phillip Hoose

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How many times have people been in situations where they are intimidated by another individual? It could be something as simple as being asked to move over a seat in a movie theater or to share a grade on a test. The way we feel when we are put in positions we are not comfortable with does not compare in the slightest to what the black people went through during the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was one of the world's greatest movements. On March 2, 1955, activist Claudette Colvin was arrested at age 15 for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white person. In the book Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose, determination to overcome obstacles is the most important theme because people demonstrated great …show more content…

Colvin says that, “Every day on the radio, I’d hear angry white callers shouting that the Communists had invaded the black churches and people had to act now. But I was not a person who lived in fear” (Hoose, 84).
This evidence shows that the white people were doing these horrible things to the blacks to try to make them scared. However, this did not work on Claudette, which proves that she was being courageous and not falling for the fact that the white people were trying to make her scared. Colvin was not the only one demonstrating courage. As described on ushistory.org,
“ ‘Are you going to stand up?’ the driver demanded. Rosa Parks looked straight at him and said: ‘No.’ Flustered, and not quite sure what to do, [the bus driver] retorted, ‘Well, I'm going to have you arrested.’ And Parks, still sitting next to the window, replied softly, ‘You may do that’ ” (ushistory.org).

This evidence shows that Parks is trying to stand up for herself, and stay in the seat. She knows that she has to get up, but she does not want to. This is being courageous because at this point, she knows she is about to get arrested, but she is still staying in the seat. Overall, to overcome obstacles, people need great courage, and that is what activists from the civil rights movement

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