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3 unusual facts about Phillip Hoose


Claudette Colvin

Phillip Hoose wrote a biography, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, which won the 2009 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

Phillip Hoose

A graduate of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Hoose was for 37 years a staff member of The Nature Conservancy, dedicated to preserving the plants, animals and natural communities of the Earth.

It features Claudette Colvin as an African-American civil rights pioneer, resisting segregation in Montgomery, Alabama.



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