A few months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, kicking off the U.S. civil rights movement, making headlines around he world and becoming an enduring symbol of the fight for dignity and equality, another young black woman refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was the wrong person at the right time, and so History did not choose her. Her name was Claudette Colvin and this is her story.
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Plateau Emilie
After studying the fine arts in Montpellier, Emilie Plateau moved to Brussels, where she started her career as a comics author and illustrator, at first creating personal fanzines and later working for publishing houses like 6 Pieds Sous Terre ("Comme un plateau," 2012, and "De l'autre côté à Montréal," 2014) and Misma ("Moi non plus," 2015). In 2019 she has continued her breakthrough, publishing with Dargaud a graphic novel adaptation of Tania de Montaigne's book "Noire, la vie méconnue de Claudette Colvin" ("Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin," Europe Comics). She also publishes children's books and works for the press, and participates in many comics collectives.
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