Full name: Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961

Author: Larry Dane Brimner Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Children Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781629795867 1629795860

On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite the fact that segregation on buses crossing state lines was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1946, and segregation in interstate transportation facilities was ruled unconstitutional in 1960, these rulings were routinely ignored in the South. The thirteen Freedom Riders intended to test the laws and draw attention to the lack of enforcement with their peaceful protest. As the Riders traveled deeper into the South, they encountered increasing violence and opposition. Noted civil rights author Larry Dane Brimner relies on archival documents and rarely seen images to tell the riveting story of the little-known first days of the Freedom Ride. With author's note, source notes, bibliography, and index. Similar books: Many Thousand Gone by Virginia Hamilton Wheels of Change by Sue Macy If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern If You Lived with the Iroquois by Ellen Levine If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine The Great Fire by Jim Murphy Medieval Life by Andrew Langley On Board the Titanic by Shelley Tanaka Susanna of the Alamo by John Jakes The American Story by Jennifer Armstrong The Genius of Islam by Bryn Barnard The World of Columbus and Sons by Genevieve Foster If You Lived 100 Years Ago by Ann McGovern Days of Knights and Damsels by Laurie Carlson If Your Name was Changed at Ellis Island by Ellen Levine Minders of Make-Believe by Leonard S. Marcus At Home in Her Tomb by Christine Liu-Perkins The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty The Great Wall of China by Leonard Everett Fisher Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg