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 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 22 cmISBN:- 9780374313227
- 0374313229
- Colvin, Claudette, 1939- -- Juvenile literature
- 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
- 323.092 HOO
- F334.M753 C6554 2009
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Non Fiction | MVS Library Main room-Teen/Adult | B- Nonfiction (Teen/Adult) | 323.092 HOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 4005781 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Young Adult.
1000 Lexile.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 6.8 5.
Accelerated Reader 6.8.
Reading Counts! 8.5.
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