Diane McWhorter
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Nonfiction
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Explores the sacrifices and triumphs of African Americans in their pursuit of social and political equality, and examines the often violent resistance they met from white Americans.
Author
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
This book includes the mug shots of all 329 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, along with contemporary portraits of 99 Riders, supplemented by interviews and brief bios. In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans--black and white, male and female--entered Southern bus and train stations to challenge the segregated waiting rooms, lunch counters, and bathrooms. The Supreme Court had ruled that such segregation was illegal,...