Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

Type

Book

Authors

Ellen S Levine

ISBN 10

0698118707

ISBN 13

9780698118706

Tags

African American, Civil Rights, activism, young adult literature, freedom, violence, arrest, united states, History, cultural, heritage, Biographies

Abstract

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.

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Lexile Measure: 760

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