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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.

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.

Author/Creator:

Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Claudette Colvin: twice toward justice [by Hoose, P.M.]

Subjects:

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

Colvin, Claudette, 1939-

1900-1999

African American civil rights workers

African American teenage girls

African Americans — Segregation

Segregation in transportation

Race relations

African Americans

United States

Alabama — Montgomery

Genres:

Juvenile works

Biographies

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-121) and index.
Newbery Honor Book, 2010
National Book Award Winner--Seal on dust jkt.
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2010

Audience:

Children

Physical Description:

133 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 22 cm

Call Numbers:

J323 C727ho

ISBNs:

9780374313227
0374313229

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008005435

OCLC Numbers:

212627066