Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now! Classics and the use of the

and the use of the Black vernacular in America’s vast reserve of racial and gendered epithets

[Gibran’s] poetry always roots me in my humanity

this uproarious and bighearted satire is a blistering send-up of privilege and power in America

and her own

Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now! Classics and the use of theCivil rights icon Claudette Colvin teams up with Phillip Hooseauthor of the Newbery Honor and National Book Award winning blockbuster biography Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justiceto tell her groundbreaking story in this unforgettable picture book illustrated by New York Timesbestselling artist Bea Jackson. Montgomery, Alabama 1955. Fifteen year old Claudette Colvin is tired. Tired of white people thinking theyre better than her. Tired of going to