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The story of the civil rights freedom rides in photographs
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.
Subjects
- Freedom Rides, 1961 > Juvenile literature.
- African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- African American civil rights workers > Southern States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights workers > Southern States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- Freedom Rides, 1961 > Pictorial works.
- African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century > Pictorial works.
- African American civil rights workers > Southern States > History > 20th century > Pictorial works.
- Civil rights workers > Southern States > History > 20th century > Pictorial works.
- Southern States > Race relations > Juvenile literature.
- Southern States > Race relations > Pictorial works.