Colored: The unsung life of Claudette Colvin

author: Emilie Plateau
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.06
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/04/25
date added: 2019/04/25
shelves: graphic-novels, non-fiction
review:
'Colored: The unsung life of Claudette Colvin with art and text by Emilie Plateau is a graphic novel adaptation of the book "Noire" by Tania de Montagne.

Told in a sort of second person narrative, the reader is put in to a story about a young woman living in a town under Jim Crow laws. When she is thrown off a bus and thrown in jail, she wants to start a bus boycott. This is not Rosa Parks. This is Claudette Colvin and this happened a few months before Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott.

Why is one person famous and not another? Why is it Rosa Parks we remember and not Cladette or possible other people? History can be picky that way and this story tells that along with a little known story.

The art is good with a limited color palette used to good effect. I liked the subtle signs in the shop windows showing the shops that were friendly and not friendly.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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