Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice /

Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-,

Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / [print] by Phillip Hoose. - 1st Square Fish ed. - New York : Square Fish, [(c)2011, 2009. - 150 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Originally published: New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, 2009. Part One: First Cry Part Two: Playing for Keeps Epilogue: History's Door.



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. Browder volume Gayle Rage in Montgomery.

Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral role in the Montgomery bus strike, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the bus company.



Newbery Honor Book, 2010. National Book Award in Young People's Literature, 2009. Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2010. Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010.

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Colvin, Claudette, 1939- --Juvenile literature.
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Colvin, Claudette, 1939- --Juvenile literature.
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