Full name: Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

Author: Ellen Levine Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780698118706 0698118707

In this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-to sit in an all-white restaurant and demand to be served, to refuse to give up a seat at the front of the bus, to be among the first to integrate the public schools, and to face violence, arrest, and even death for the cause of freedom. "Thrilling...Nothing short of wonderful."-The New York Times Awards: ( A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year ( A Booklist Editors' Choice Similar books: If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King by Ellen Levine If Your Name was Changed at Ellis Island by Ellen Levine Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch Local People by John Dittmer Freedom Riders by Ann Bausum Freedom Summer by Bruce Watson Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch My Soul Is Rested by Howell Raines Walking with the Wind by John Lewis The Children by David Halberstam The Race Beat by Gene Roberts Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney There Goes My Everything by Jason Sokol Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll