Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose.
"On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. 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."--Back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374313227
- ISBN: 0374313229
- ISBN: 1448754194
- ISBN: 9781448754199
- ISBN: 9780312661052
- ISBN: 0312661053
- Physical Description: 133 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-121) and index. |
| Formatted 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. |
| Target Audience Note: | 1000L Lexile Young Adult. 1000 Lexile. |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.8 5 129138. Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 6.8 5. Accelerated Reader 6.8. Reading Counts! 8.5. |
| Awards Note: | Newbery Honor Book, 2010 National Book Award Winner--Seal on dust jkt. Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2010. Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010 YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Finalist, 2010. Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor, 2010 |
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