Claudette Colvin
Twice Toward Justice
New York : Square Fish, 2011.
Format: Book
Edition: First Square Fish edition.
Description: 150 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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.
Contents:
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.
Subjects:
Colvin, Claudette, 1939- -- 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 -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Colvin, Claudette, 1939- -- 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 -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: 1000L
ISBN:
9780312661052
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C BIOGRAPHY Colvin, Claudette | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Colvin, Claudette | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Colvin, Claudette | North Main | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Colvin, Claudette | Sandhills Indoors | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Colvin, Claudette | Southeast | Display, Children's Biography | In |
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Originally published: New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, ©2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-128) and index.
John Newbery Medal Honor, 2010.
National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 2009.
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2010.
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-128) and index.
John Newbery Medal Honor, 2010.
National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 2009.
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2010.
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010.