Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose.
2009
F334.M753 C6554 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780374313227
0374313229
0374313229
Publication Details
New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, c2009.
Language
English
Description
133 p. : ill. ; 24 x 22 cm.
Call Number
F334.M753 C6554 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.092 B
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards
National Book Award, 2009
Newbery Honor, 2010
Jane Addams Honor, 2010
Newbery Honor, 2010
Jane Addams Honor, 2010
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Table of 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.
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.