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=Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice by Phillip Hoose=





It was just announced that Claudette Colvin has won the National Book Award!

Author Phillip Hoose with Claudette Colvin at the National Book Awards. At the awards ceremony Phillip Hoose said: “Unreal, I thank everyone in the room and everyone at Farrar, Straus and Giroux,” said Hoose with Colvin at his side as he accepted the award at a Wednesday night black tie ceremony at New York City’s Cipriani restaurant. “I thank this woman beside me whose story was about to disappear. We got to tell an untold story.” In an interview with School Library Journal Hoose said, He was pleased that today’s kids are moved by the story. “I know they hear the story of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks every Martin Luther King Day and Black History Month, but the immediacy of it, what it would have felt like, how humiliating it was, how unfair it was every day, I think the emotional part of that is fading,” Hoose said. “I’m glad to restore it, to try to help. It’s a part of American history that really needs to be remembered.

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