Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 133 p. : ill. ; 24 x 22 cmISBN:- 9780374313227 (hbk.)
- 0374313229 (hbk.)
- Colvin, Claudette, 1939- -- Juvenile literature
- Colvin, Claudette, 1939-
- African Americans -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- 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.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- F334.M753 C6554 2009
- Newbery Honor Book, 2010
- National Book Award Winner--Seal on dust jkt
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2010
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books (30-Day Checkout) | Nash Library Nash 301 Children's Books Section | J NF 323.092 HOO | 1 | Available | 33710001246474 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-121) and index.
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.
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.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 6.8 5.
Newbery Honor Book, 2010
National Book Award Winner--Seal on dust jkt
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2010