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Pine Level

The small Alabama town where Claudette was born.

Montgomery

The central Alabama city which is the main setting of the book.

Montgomery Buses

Claudette and many other blacks rode these to work and school in Montgomery.

Jim Crow Laws

The laws which imposed racial segregation in the American South.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

This is when Montgomery blacks refused to ride public transportation in Montgomery.

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s church where many Civil Rights meetings were held.

The Montgomery City Jail

Claudette spent time here just as many major Civil Rights leaders did.

The Civil Rights movement

The initiative for racial equality in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.

Browder v. Gale

The court case that ended bus segregation in Montgomery.

Brown v. Board of Education

The famous 1954 court case that ended racial segregation in public schools.

Illegitimacy

A child...

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