Format:
Book
Title:
Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose.
Author:
Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
Call Number:
j323.092 COLVIN
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, 2009.
Description:
133 p. : ill. ; 24 x 22 cm.
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.
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.
Newbery Honor.
Robert F. Sibert Honor.
ISBN:
0374313229
9780374313227