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    Noire, La vie méconnue de Claudette Colvin

    March 25, 2015
    Biography
    176 pages
    118 × 188 mm
    9782246785286
    978-2-2467-8528-6
    Tania de Montaigne, Noire, La vie méconnue de Claudette Colvin
    Tania de Montaigne, Noire, La vie méconnue de Claudette Colvin

    In Montgomery, Alabama, being Black grants no rights but many duties. On March 2, 1955, on the bus where she had taken her seat, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her place to a white woman. Despite threats from the armed driver, from white passengers, and from some Black passengers, she stayed seated. Nine months before the famous Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, a fifteen-year-old African American girl, was arrested. She was the first to plead not guilty. It marked the beginning of a journey that would take her from activism to obscurity. This book pays tribute to her.

    The author

    Tania de Montaigne is a novelist and journalist. She is the author of Noire, la vie méconnue de Claudette Colvin (2015), winner of the Prix Simone Veil 2015, and L’Assignation, les Noirs n’existent pas (2018), winner of the Prix de la laïcité 2018. Noire, la vie méconnue de Claudette Colvin was adapted for the stage by Stéphane Foenkinos in 2019. The book was also adapted into a graphic novel by Émilie Plateau (Dargaud, 2019) and into an immersive augmented-reality exhibition inaugurated at the Centre Pompidou in April 2023. L’Assignation, les Noirs n’existent pas was adapted for the stage in a production created at the Théâtre National de Bretagne in 2021. It also inspired a documentary broadcast on France 5 in May 2023. Her latest novel, Sensibilités, was published in 2023, and her latest essay, Un violent désir de chaleur humaine, was released in January 2026.

    March 25, 2015
    Biography
    176 pages
    118 × 188 mm
    9782246785286
    978-2-2467-8528-6