Title:
Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
Personal Author EPSB:
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:
ISBN:
9780312661052
9780374302368
Publisher:
New York : Square Fish, 2011, c2009.
