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- The former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove published a poem, "Claudette Colvin Goes to Work", in her 1999 poetry collection On the Bus with Rosa Parks (W.W. Norton). Rita Dove also referred to Claudette Colvin in her magazine article "The Torchbearer Rosa Parks"
- The folk singer John McCutcheon set it to music, sang and recorded it, with Rita Dove speaking one line, on his CD Mightier than the Sword (2006).
- The storyteller-actress Awele Makeba wrote, directed and starred in a one-woman drama, Rage Is Not A 1-Day Thing!, in which Makeba relates the story of the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott through the eyes of Colvin following her arrest.
- Phillip Hoose won the 2009 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for his biography, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice.
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