Hoose, Phillip M.,  1947- <br/><br/>
Claudette Colvin :  twice toward justice / 
by Phillip Hoose. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux,  2009. 
 - 133 p. :  ill. ;  24 x 22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-121) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/> Newbery Honor Book, 2010.  National Book Award Winner--Seal on dust jkt.  Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2010. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780374313227 (hbk.) 0374313229 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008005435 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Colvin, Claudette, 1939- --Juvenile literature.<br/>Colvin, Claudette, 1939- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature.<br/>African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature.<br/>African American teenage girls--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature.<br/>African Americans--Segregation--History--Alabama--Montgomery--Juvenile literature.<br/>Segregation in transportation--History--Alabama--Montgomery--Juvenile literature.<br/>African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.<br/>African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.<br/>Teenage girls--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.<br/>African Americans--Segregation--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.<br/>Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.<br/>Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography.<br/>Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>YA F 334 .M753  / C6554 2009