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Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose. |
| Authors: | Hoose, Phillip M., 1947- |
| Call number: | jB Colvin, Claudette HOO |
| Publisher: | New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, c2009. |
| Publication date: | c2009. |
| Subject: |
African Americans -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.
African American civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography. African American teenage girls -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography. African Americans -- Segregation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History. Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History. Juvenile literature. Colvin, Claudette, 1939- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography. Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. |
| Title: | Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | 133 p. : ill. ; 24 x 22 cm. |
| Contents note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Awards note: | Young Hoosier Book Award, 2011-2012, 6-8 Nominee. |
| ISBN: | 9780374313227 0374313229 |
| LCCN: | 2008005435 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1194814 |
| Bib No.: | 1194814 |