“Not long ago, Claudette Colvin telephoned me from a hospice facility in Texas to say goodbye…We remembered the time during our book tour when patrons coiled around the block outside the Birmingham, Ala., public library for the chance to meet her. Most were Black women. “My momma always told me there was someone before Rosa… Read more »
What are your all-time favorite biographies and memoirs? Claudette Colvin joins Nelson Mandela, Che Guevara, Bob Dylan, and more as one of Amazon’s “100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in Lifetime.”
Astonishing readers Abigail and James talk to Phillip Hoose about his writing, research, book bans, music and much more!
It is with utter joy that we share this news.
Claudette Colvin, profiled in the award-winning biography, has been named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Women of the Year! Read about her and other “Bus Riders” HERE. For 72 years, TIME named a Man of the Year. With a few exceptions, it was almost always a man, usually a President or a Prime Minister or… Read more »
In 2017, the city of Montgomery declared March 2, Claudette Colvin Day. In an excellent article by Melissa Brown for the Montgomery Advertiser, the city looks back on Claudette’s heroic act. “I didn’t get up and stand up. I just sat there. When people ask me why I didn’t get up and move, I tell… Read more »
Phillip Hoose was presented with the 2018 Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Book Award for his full body of work in a ceremony in Washington, DC. The Children’s Book Guild of DC is a professional organization of authors, illustrators and children’s literature specialists promoting high standards in children’s literature since 1945. Here is the… Read more »
Jeremy Felix, a seventh-grade student at Glen Meadow Middle School in Vernon Township, NJ won the Scholastic Scope national essay contest for his essay on Claudette Colvin. Kristen Lewis, executive editor of Scope magazine wrote to Jeremy, “We loved how you captured the dauntlessness and courage of Claudette Colvin…Wonderful work!” Thank you to Language Arts… Read more »
The city of Montgomery, Alabama has declared March 2nd, Claudette Colvin Day. That date marks the day in 1955, when the impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus. “She was an early foot soldier in our civil… Read more »