Topic: Claudette Colvin
A correction to an article about Claudette Colvin, in a previous issue is presented. CORRECTION -- Last Week's Black New Yorkers article incorrectly stated that Ms. Claudette Colvin was three months pregnant when she testified in 1956....
Because she uses TV to help us live our best lives; because her book club created millions of readers; because she's a benevolent billionaire, giving gazillions to charity; because of her Leadership Academy - we just don't have room in our ...
National Book Award winner about civil rights figure makes finals for new youth literary prizeA book about civil rights heroine Claudette Colvin that won a National Book Award last month is among the five finalists for a new prize for young adult ...
The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, has announced the 2009 Award winners. The winner in the Young People's Literature category is Claudette Colvin: Phillip Hoose's riveting and intelligent portrait incorporates photographs and other galvanizing primary source ...
Maine author wins National Book Award for account of young civil rights pioneerMaine author Phillip Hoose said winning a National Book Award for his chronicle of a young civil rights pioneer was all the more moving because she took the stage with ...
National Book Awards celebrate New York stories as honorees ponder the future of literatureThe 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A novel about life in New York City in the 1970s and a biography of U.S. tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the winners at the United States 60th annual National Book Awards on Wednesday.Colum McCann won the ...
Celebrate Black History Month with this show about young people of the Civil Rights movement. In this play featuring archival Civil Rights recordings, we meet Ernest Green, of the Little Rock Nine, the first black student to graduate from an integrated high ...
Book tells of Ala. girl's refusal to surrender bus seat months before Rosa Parks defianceMore than 50 years after her refusal to surrender her bus seat to a white woman set the stage for a similar act of defiance by Rosa ...
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND : ENCOUNTERS IN THE DISUNITED STATES by Gary Younge The Guardian New Press, Gary Younge, a staff writer for the Guardian, arrived in New York in January 2003, to be the paper's correspondent there. I didn't ...
