![]() Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, 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. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. ![]() Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose. 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. Front cover image for Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice. ) 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. ![]() ![]() First edition - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. Phillip Hooses book, 'Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice' opens with a brief history of Jim Crow laws and segregation in the South, specifically in Montgomery, Alabama. ![]()
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