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Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 133 p. : ill. ; 24 x 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780374313227 (hbk.)
  • 0374313229 (hbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F334.M753 C6554 2009
Online resources:
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.
Awards:
  • Newbery Honor Book, 2010
  • National Book Award Winner--Seal on dust jkt
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2010
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) 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