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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice


By Phillip M Hoose

Reading Level: High School, Middle School
Genre: Biography
Awards: Newbery Medal
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) 2009
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.

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