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Award winner Hoose had company on stage
By AP Wire Services
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11/29/2009 2:26 AM
Last Modified: 11/29/2009 9:19 AM
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine 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 him when he accepted the honor.
Hoose won the young people's literature award for "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" at the 60th annual National Book Awards, held Nov. 19 in New York.
He based his book on the true story of Claudette Colvin, who as a 15-year-old schoolgirl was dragged off a bus in Montgomery, Ala., for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman. She made her stand against racism and prejudice months before a similar incident made Rosa Parks a national symbol for the civil rights struggle.
A few minutes before the winner was announced, Hoose asked the 70-year-old Colvin, who had joined him at the ceremony, if she would accept the award with him if he won.
"When she stood, there was sort of an audible gasp. There was a wave that went through the room when people realized she was with me, that that person in history was there in that room," Hoose said in a telephone interview from New York.
By AP Wire Services
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