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Freedom Riders John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

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ISBN-10: 0792241738

ISBN-13: 9780792241737

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ann Bausum

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Description:

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. No other book on the Freedom Riders has used such a personal perspective. 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…    
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Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Disney Publishing Worldwide
Publication date: 12/27/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 80
Size: 8.62" wide x 11.22" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English