This bio adapted from material on Hoose’s website. Phillip’s love of sports is reflected in his acclaimed books, Perfect Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me which was named one of the Top 10 Sports Books of 2007 by Booklist and Hoosiers: the Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana.Ī graduate of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Hoose has been a staff member of The Nature Conservancy since 1977, dedicated to finding and protecting habitats of endangered species.
Hoose’s picture book, Hey, Little Ant which began as a song by the same title was co-authored with his daughter Hannah has been published in ten different languages and Teaching Tolerance Magazine called it, “A masterpiece for teaching values and character education.” In Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice young readers finally get to hear Claudette Colvins story in her own words, giving them a detailed look at segregated life in 1950s Montgomery, Alabama, and showing them how one teenager helped change the world. History and a manual for youth activism It’s Our World Too!. Phillip Hooses Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice is a comprehensive and. He is also the author of The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, the story of efforts to preserve the endangered ivory-billed woodpecker the National Book Award Finalist We Were There Too!: Young People in U.S. 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. Claudette Colvin is the National Book Award Winner for Young Peoples. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South.īased on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.Phillip Hoose is the author of books, essays, stories, songs, and articles, including the National Book Award winning book, Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice.
Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. 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. Online Epub Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Kindle ePUB or PDF E. 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. Claudette Colvin is the National Book Award Winner for Young Peoples Literature. YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction FinalistĪvailable in Hardcover, Paperback, Audio, E-Book
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