Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice

Titre
Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice

Phillip M., Hoose

Sommaire
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.

Date de publication comme intervalle
2011,
 
2009

Description matérielle
150 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Edition
1st Square Fish ed.

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

Table des matières
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.

Newbery Honor Book, 2010.

Vedette-matière - nom de personne
Colvin, Claudette, 1939-

Terme de vedette-matière
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.

Terme géographique
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.
 
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History.

Résumé
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.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780312661052
 
9780374302368

Informations de publication
New York : Square Fish, 2011, c2009.


BibliothèqueNuméro de rayonType de documentCode à barres du documentStatut
A. Blair McPherson921 COLBook31458000037187Non-Fiction