Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice (Newbery Honor Book; National Book Award Winner)

Name: Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice (Newbery Honor Book; National Book Award Winner)
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ISBN: 9780312661052

ISBN-10: 0312661053

ISBN-13: 9780312661052

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Authors: Phillip Hoose

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"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'"Claudette Colvin 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…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Publisher: Square Fish
Publication date: 12/21/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English