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Author Hoose, Phillip M., 1947- Title Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose. Publisher New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, [2009] ©2009. Copies
ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS Lac Courte Oreilles juvenile nonfiction J 323 HOO AVAILABLE Spooner juvenile nonfiction J 921 COLVIN AVAILABLE Descript 133 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 22 cm age Children lcdgt Note Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.8 5.0 129138. Reading Counts RC 6-8 8.5 10 Quiz: 46186. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages [109]-112) and index. Note Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.8 5 129138. 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. Summary On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. 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.--From publisherʹs description. Audience 1000 Lexile. Note Nonfiction. Subject Colvin, Claudette, 1939- -- Juvenile literature. Colvin, Claudette, 1939- United States. Constitution. United States. Constitution -- Juvenile literature. African Americans -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. African American civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. African American teenage girls -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. African Americans -- Segregation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- Juvenile literature. Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature. 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. Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature. Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography. Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. Genre Biographies. Subject Minority groups. Black people. BIPOC. Minorities. ISBN/ISSN 0374313229 (hardcover) 9780374313227 (hardcover) 0312661053 (paperback) 9780312661052 (paperback)
