Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0698118707
ISBN 13
9780698118706
Category
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Publication Year
2000
Publisher
Pages
192
Description
In this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-to sit in an all-white restaurant and demand to be served, to refuse to give up a seat at the front of the bus, to be among the first to integrate the public schools, and to face violence, arrest, and even death for the cause of freedom."Thrilling...Nothing short of wonderful."-The New York TimesAwards:( A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year( A Booklist Editors' Choice - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
