Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice

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Resumen:

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.

Fecha de publicación como intervalo:

2011,

2009

Descripción física:

150 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Edición:

1st Square Fish ed.

Nota general:

Originally published: New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, c2009.

Contenido:

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.

EPSB_586:

Newbery Honor Book, 2010.

Materia personal:

Colvin, Claudette, 1939-

Término de la materia:

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.

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