CLAUDETTE COLVIN: Twice Toward Justice.
by Hoose, Phillip M
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (2009). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) An account written for young adults of the role of teenager Claudette Colvin in sparking the Montgomery bus boycott - " 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, [this is the] first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history." Winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. a 2010 Newbery Honor Book, and more. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Bibliography, notes. Slightly oversized square format. 122 pp.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Seller
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 84449
- Title
- CLAUDETTE COLVIN: Twice Toward Justice.
- Author
- Hoose, Phillip M
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2009)
- Keywords
- 2009 National Book Award, a 2010 Newbery Honor Book, young adult, african american history, arc, uncorrected proof,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil Rights / Black Power Movements;
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