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Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Colvin, Claudette, 1939-2026--Juvenile literature.
Colvin, Claudette.
Colvin, Claudette, 1939-.
Newbery honor book.
African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African Americans.
Segregation in transportation.
History.
African Americans--Segregation.
African American teenage girls.
African American civil rights workers.
Alabama--Montgomery.
African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African American teenage girls--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Segregation--Alabama--Montgomery--History--Juvenile literature.
Segregation in transportation--Alabama--Montgomery--History--Juvenile literature.
Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Montgomery (Ala.).
Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
Newbery honor book--2010.
Robert F. Sibert Informational honor book.
Robert F. Sibert Informational honor book--2010.
African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
Teenage girls--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
African Americans--Segregation--History.
Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography.
Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
133 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 22 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, 2009.
Summary:
Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.
Contents:
First cry: Jim Crow and the detested number ten
Coot
"We seemed to hate ourselves"
"It's my constitutional right!"
"There's the girl who got arrested"
"Crazy" times
"Another Negro woman has been arrested"
Second front, second chance
Playing for keeps: Browder v. Gayle
Rage in Montgomery
History's door.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [113]-121) and index.
Newbery Honor Book, 2010.
National Book Award Winner--Seal on dust jkt.
ISBN:
9780374313227
0374313229
OCLC:
212627066

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