Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south.
No other book on the Freedom Riders has used such a personal perspective. These two young men, empowered by their successes in the Nashville student movement, were among those who volunteered to continue the Freedom Rides after violence in Anniston, Alabama, left the original bus in flames with the riders injured and in retreat.
Lewis and Zwerg joined the cause knowing their own fate could be equally harsh, if not worse. The journey they shared as freedom riders through the Deep South changed not only their own lives but our nation's history.
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| ISBN: | 9780792241737 |
| Publication date: | 27th December 2005 |
| Author: | Ann Bausum |
| Publisher: | National Geographic Kids an imprint of Disney - RHCB |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 79 pages |
| Series: | National Geographic Kids |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography History People / Places |
Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south.
Freedom Riders features in the following genres: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, History, People / Places
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Freedom Riders was written by Ann Bausum and published by National Geographic Kids an imprint of Disney - RHCB
Freedom Riders has 79 pages
Yes it is part of National Geographic Kids series