Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice /
by Phillip Hoose.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, 2009.
- 133 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-121) and index.
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Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.
7.0 Young Adult Follett Library Resources
0374313229
2008005435
Colvin, Claudette, 1939-
Civil rights workers--Biography. Teenagers--Biography. Girls--Biography. African Americans--Biography. African Americans--Segregation--History. Segregation in transportation.