Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement

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Title:

Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement

Author:

Bausum, Ann, author.

Personal Author:

Bausum, Ann, author.

Physical Description:

79 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Summary:

Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south. These two young men, empowered by their successes in the Nashville student movement, were among those who volunteered to continue the Freedom Rides after violence in Anniston, Alabama, left the original bus in flames with the riders injured and in retreat. Lewis and Zwerg joined the cause knowing their own fate could be equally harsh, if not worse. The journey they shared as freedom riders through the Deep South changed not only their own lives but our nation's history.

Language:

English

Contents:

Foreword / Foreword / Introduction -- Black America -- White America -- Common ground -- Early rides -- Blood brothers -- Rolling on -- Separate paths -- Afterword: Toward one America -- Partial roster of Riders -- Chronology -- Resource guide -- Research notes & acknowledgments.

Reading Level:

Ages 10-13.

Middle School.

1090 Lexile.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 7.8 3.

Accelerated Reader 7.8.

Reading Counts! 8.3.

Personal Subject:

Lewis, John, 1940-2020-Juvenile literature.

Zwerg, Jim, 1939--Juvenile literature.

Lewis, John, 1940 February 21- (OCoLC)fst01830728