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

Author: Ann Bausum Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780792241737 0792241738

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 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. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information. Similar books: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose Freedom's Children by Ellen Levine The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis Spies of Mississippi by Rick Bowers Freedom Walkers by Russell Freedman Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney We've Got a Job by Cynthia Levinson Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton Walking with the Wind by John Lewis The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester The Girl from the Tar Paper School by Teri Kanefield Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Mobituaries by Mo Rocca Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester