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The Resource Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement, by Ann Bausum ; forewords by Freedom Riders Congressman John Lewis and Jim Zwerg

Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement, by Ann Bausum ; forewords by Freedom Riders Congressman John Lewis and Jim Zwerg

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Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement
Title
Freedom Riders
Title remainder
John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement
Statement of responsibility
by Ann Bausum ; forewords by Freedom Riders Congressman John Lewis and Jim Zwerg
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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. 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
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Pace
Tone
Writing style
Award
  • ALA Notable Children's Book, 2007
  • Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2006
  • Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award (Wisconsin), 2007.
  • Garden State Teen Book Award (New Jersey), Nonfiction, 2009.
  • YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2007
Awards note
Robert F. Sibert Ifnormational Book Honor, 2007
Biography type
collective biography
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148162
Cataloging source
DLC
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Bausum, Ann
Dewey number
  • 323/.092/273
  • B
Index
index present
LC call number
E185.96
LC item number
.B355 2006
Literary form
non fiction
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  • 5
  • 9
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  • 1940-2020
  • 1939-
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  • Lewis, John
  • Zwerg, Jim
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True
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  • Lewis, John
  • Zwerg, Jim
  • African American civil rights workers
  • Civil rights workers
  • African Americans
  • Civil rights movements
  • Southern States
Target audience
juvenile
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John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement
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Label
Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement, by Ann Bausum ; forewords by Freedom Riders Congressman John Lewis and Jim Zwerg
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Black America -- White America -- Common ground -- Early rides -- Blood brothers -- Rolling on -- Separate paths -- Afterword : toward one America -- Partial roster of Riders -- Chronology
Dimensions
29 cm.
Extent
79 p.
Isbn
9780792241744
Lccn
2005-12947
Other physical details
ill., map, ports.:
System control number
(OCoLC)ocm60373657
Label
Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement, by Ann Bausum ; forewords by Freedom Riders Congressman John Lewis and Jim Zwerg
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Black America -- White America -- Common ground -- Early rides -- Blood brothers -- Rolling on -- Separate paths -- Afterword : toward one America -- Partial roster of Riders -- Chronology
Dimensions
29 cm.
Extent
79 p.
Isbn
9780792241744
Lccn
2005-12947
Other physical details
ill., map, ports.:
System control number
(OCoLC)ocm60373657

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