Title |
Claudette Colvin twice toward justice
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Names |
Hoose, Phillip M.
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Book Number |
DB068732
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Digital Book
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Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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Annotation |
Uses interviews to provide a firsthand account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin's arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white woman in 1955 Alabama. Explains the era's racial segregation policy and the consequences of Claudette's demand for her constitutional rights. Some strong language. For grades 5-8. Nat'l Book Award. 2009.
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Narrator |
Buzzard, Madelyn.
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Local Subject |
Young Adult Non-Fiction - YN
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Young Adult Book - YA
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History - HST
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History, United States - HUS
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Black Interest - BLK
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History, U.S. - 20th Century - HUT
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Biography & Autobiography - BIO
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Juvenile Book - JU
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Juvenile Non-Fiction - JN
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Award-Winning Children's Books - AWJ
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Award-Winning Young Adult Books - AWY
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Audience Notes |
Female narrator.
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For grades 5-8.
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Contains strong language.
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Award winner.
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LC Subject |
African American civil rights workers - Alabama - Montgomery - Biography - Juvenile literature
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African American teenage girls - Alabama - Montgomery - Biography - Juvenile literature
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African Americans - Segregation - Alabama - Montgomery - History - Juvenile literature
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African Americans - Alabama - Montgomery - Biography - Juvenile literature
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Segregation in transportation - Alabama - Montgomery - History - Juvenile literature
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Montgomery (Ala.) - Biography - Juvenile literature
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Montgomery (Ala.) - Race relations - History - 20th century - Juvenile literature
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Call Number |
j323.092 B JNF
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Language |
English
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Released |
2009
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Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2009 (American Printing House for the Blind, recording studio).
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Original Publication |
Recorded from: New York : Melanie Kroupa Books, c2009. 0374313229
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