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Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose.
LIBRA F334.M753 C6554 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colvin, Claudette, 1939-2026--Juvenile literature.
- Colvin, Claudette.
- African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American civil rights workers.
- African American teenage girls--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American teenage girls.
- African Americans--Segregation--Alabama--Montgomery--History--Juvenile literature.
- Segregation in transportation--Alabama--Montgomery--History--Juvenile literature.
- Segregation in transportation.
- Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Montgomery (Ala.).
- Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
- Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
- Civil rights.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery--History.
- Segregation in transportation--Alabama--Montgomery--History.
- Women--Biography.
- Women.
- Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography.
- Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations--History.
- Colvin, Claudette, 1939-.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans--Segregation--History.
- Segregation in transportation--History.
- Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans--Segregation.
- Race relations.
- Alabama--Montgomery.
- Genre:
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 150 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Square Fish edition.
- Other Title:
- Twice toward justice
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Square Fish, 2011.
- Summary:
- Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral role in the Montgomery bus strike, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the bus company.
- Contents:
- 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
- Browder v. Gayle
- Rage in Montgomery
- History's door.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in the United States by Melanie Kroupa Books, an imprint of Farrar Straus Giroux." -- Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-128) and index.
- Newbery Honor Book, 2010
- National Book Award in Young People's Literature, 2009
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2010
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780312661052
- 0312661053
- 9780606231886
- 0606231889
- OCLC:
- 651912643
- Online:
- View cover image provided by Mackin
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