Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
Title
:
Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
Personal Author EPSB
:
Phillip M., Hoose
Summary
:
Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral role in the Montgomery bus strike, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the bus company.
Year Published
:
2011,
2009
Physical Description
:
150 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Edition
:
1st Square Fish ed.
Note
:
Originally published: New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, c2009.
Contents
:
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 -- Browder v. Gayle -- Rage in Montgomery -- History's door.
Awards
:
Newbery Honor Book, 2010.
Personal Subject
:
Colvin, Claudette, 1939-
Subject
:
African Americans -- Biography.
Women -- Biography.
African American civil rights workers.
African Americans -- Segregation -- History.
Civil rights -- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.
Segregation in transportation -- Montgomery (Ala.) -- History.
Geographic Term
:
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History.
Summary
:
Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral role in the Montgomery bus strike, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the bus company.
ISBN
:
9780312661052
9780374302368
Publisher
:
New York : Square Fish, 2011, c2009.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| A. Blair McPherson | 921 COL | Book | 31458000037187 | Non-Fiction |