Because ClaudetteWhen fifteen year old Claudette Colvin boarded a segregated bus on March 2, 1955, she had no idea she was about to make history. At school she was learning about abolitionists like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, which helped inspire her decision to refuse to give up her seat to a white woman, which led to her arrest, which began a crucial chain of events: Rosa Park's sit in nine months later, the organization of the Montgomery bus boycott by

bell hooks

especially of African-American descent

It is 1913

he's floored to discover she's been leading a double life

As he gets older

They wouldn't allow a girl to play fútbol--and she needs their permission to go any farther

Once Portland-famous and now infamous

Henri 'Halti' Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone

but unlike her sister before her

That's in part to keep her real-life persona

and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward

America became her home