Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Duration: 3:38:11. Read by Channie Waites. AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND CORALVILLE RESIDENTS AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS AND HILLS (IA).
Summary:
On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama. Shouting "It's my constitutional right!" as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she'd had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child ...
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