Twice Toward Justice

ISBN-10

312661053

ISBN-13

978-0312661052

Author

Hoose, Phillip

Publisher

Square Fish

Copyright

2010

Lexile

1000L

Genre

Children’s Literature

Synopsis

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. Though shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders, a year later, Claudette Colvin dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery.

Themes

Civil Rights

Protagonist

African-American Female

Note

Over the years, these books have been published in multiple editions. The page numbers in your book may be different than the ones on the lesson plan.