Which quotation is an example of the author using a third-person point of view in "It's My Constitutional Right!"?
Why does author Phillip Hoose include a police report when writing about Claudette Colvin in "It's My Constitutional Right!"?
Which text is an example of a primary source from the civil rights movement?
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Read this excerpt from "It's My Constitutional Right!"Two men rose and scrambled off the trouble-filled bus. Mrs. Hamilton slowly walked back and took one of their seats.
Which quotation is an example of the author using a first-person point of view in "It's My Constitutional Right!"?
Read this excerpt from "It's My Constitutional Right!"Claudette slid into a window seat on the left side, near the exit door and about halfway back. A schoolmate plopped down beside her, and two other Booker T. Washington students took the seats across the aisle in the same row. Balancing her textbooks on her lap, Claudette settled back and gazed absently out the window as the bus pulled away from the curb.
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Read this excerpt from "It's My Constitutional Right!"All ride long they swore at me and ridiculed me. . . . I recited the Lord's Prayer and the Twenty-third Psalm over and over in my head, trying to push back the fear. I assumed they were taking me to juvenile court because I was only fifteen. I was thinking, Now I'm gonna be picking cotton, since that's how they punished juveniles--they put you in a school out in the country where they made you do field work during the day.
Read this excerpt from "It's My Constitutional Right!"The officer ordered her to get up. Again Claudette refused. He returned to the driver and explained that as a transit policeman he lacked the authority to make an arrest. The doors closed behind him as he stepped down into the street and the bus pulled away again. One block north, at the intersection of Bibb and Commerce streets, a squad car was waiting. This time, when the Highland Gardens bus door opened, two Montgomery city policemen climb
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