Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott / Russell Freedman.

Title:

ISBN:

9780823420315

Personal Author:

Freedman, Russell, 1929-2018

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Holiday House, [2006]

Physical Description:

xi, 114 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Awards Note:

A Junior Library Guild selection.

Contents:

Map -- Montgomery, Alabama, 1955-1956 -- Introduction: Why they walked -- Jo Ann Robinson -- Claudette Colvin -- Rosa Parks -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Boycott heroes -- Proud to be arrested -- Walking to victory -- Children are coming on -- Chapter notes -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Summary:

Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.7 3.0 107528.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 8.6 7 Quiz: 39161 Guided reading level: Z.

Geographic Term:

Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.

Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery -- History 20th century.

Civil rights movements--Alabama--Montgomery -- History 20th century.

Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956