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Author:

Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-

Title:

Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

133 p. : ill. ; 24 x 22 cm.

Subject:

Colvin, Claudette,--1939---Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Montgomery--Montgomery--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
African American civil rights workers--Montgomery--Montgomery--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
African American teenage girls--Montgomery--Montgomery--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--History--Montgomery--Montgomery--History--Juvenile literature.
Segregation in transportation--Montgomery--Montgomery--History--Juvenile literature.
Montgomery (Ala.)--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Montgomery (Ala.)--History--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
Colvin, Claudette,--1939-
African Americans--Montgomery--Montgomery--Biography.
African American civil rights workers--Montgomery--Montgomery--Biography.
Teenage girls--Montgomery--Montgomery--Biography.
African Americans--History.--History.
Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography.
Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-121) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN:

0374313229 (hbk.)
9780374313227 (hbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)212627066

LCCN:

2008005435

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