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The story of the civil rights freedom rides in photographs

Call Number

  • J 323.1196 ARET (CEN, POW)

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Publication Information

Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, Inc., [2014]

Physical Description

48 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Summary

"Discusses the Freedom Rides, an important event in the Civil Rights Movement, including the riders who risked their lives, the violence the riders faced, and the successful integration of interstate buses and terminals"--Provided by publisher.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Riding into danger
  • Battered in Birmingham
  • Trouble in Montgomery
  • The journey to Mississippi
  • Hundreds sent to prison
  • Freedom riders prevail.