Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
Title
:
Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
Author
:
Hoose, Phillip M., 1947- author.
ISBN
:
9780374313227
Edition
:
1st ed.
Publication Information
:
New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, c2009.
Physical 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.
Reading Level
:
1000 L Lexile
Personal Subject
:
Colvin, Claudette, 1939-
Subject Term
:
African Americans -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.
African American civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.
African American teenage girls -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.
African Americans -- Segregation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History.
Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History.
Geographic Term
:
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Summary
:
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.
| Library | Call Number | Status |
|---|
| Bayport Public Library | J 323.1196 HOO | Nonfiction Collection |
| Oakdale Library | J 323.1196 HOO | Nonfiction Collection |
| Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove) | J 323.1196 HOO | Nonfiction Collection |
| R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | J 323.1196 HOO | Nonfiction Collection |
| Stillwater Public Library | J 323.1196 HOO | Nonfiction Collection |
| Wildwood Library (Mahtomedi) | J 323.1196 HOO | Nonfiction Collection |