Cover image for Twelve Days in May : Freedom Ride 1961 / Larry Dane Brimner.
Title:
Twelve Days in May : Freedom Ride 1961 / Larry Dane Brimner.
ISBN:
9781629795867
Personal Author:
Brimner, Larry Dane
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Hightlights, [2017]

©2017
Physical Description:
111 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary:
For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the Freedom Riders, traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled.

The Freedom Riders: James Farmer, James Peck, Genevieve Hughes, Joseph "Joe" P. Perkins Jr., Walter Bergman, Frances Bergman, Albert Smith Bigelow, Jimmy McDonald, Edward "Ed" Blankenheim, Henry "Hank" Thomas, Charles Person, Benjamin Elton Cox, and John Lewis.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 7.0 2 194620
Personal Subject:
Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
Geographic Term:
Southern States -- Race relations

Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Subject Term:
African American civil rights workers -- Biography

Civil rights workers--United States -- Biography

African Americans -- Civil rights--Southern States -- History 20th century.

Civil rights movements--Southern States -- History 20th century

Freedom Rides, 1961

Civil rights demonstrations--Southern States -- History 20th century

Black civil rights workers -- Biography

Black people -- Civil rights--Southern States -- History 20th century
Audience:
1080L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn978650548
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