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Subject(s)

• Colvin, Claudette 1939-—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• African Americans—Alabama—Montgomery—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• African American civil rights workers—Alabama—Montgomery—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• African American teenage girls—Alabama—Montgomery—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• African Americans—Segregation—Alabama—Montgomery—History—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Segregation in transportation—Alabama—Montgomery—History—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Montgomery (Ala.)—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Montgomery (Ala.)—Race relations—History—20th century—Juvenile literature [Browse]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Originally published: New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, c2009.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-128) and index.

Awards

• Newbery Honor Book, 2010.
• National Book Award in Young People's Literature, 2009.
• Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2010.
• Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010.

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.

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ISBN

• 9780312661052 (pbk.)
• 0312661053 (pbk.)
• 9780374302368
• 0374302367

LCCN

2008005435

OCLC

651912643

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