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| Named Person: | Claudette Colvin; Claudette Colvin |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Phillip M Hoose |
| ISBN: | 9780374313227 0374313229 |
| OCLC Number: | 212627066 |
| Awards: | Newbery Honor Book, 2010.; National Book Award Winner--Seal on dust jkt.; Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2010. |
| Description: | 133 p. : ill. ; 24 x 22 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | by Phillip Hoose. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
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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