Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement

Resource Information

The work Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Delaware County District Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.

The Resource Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement

Label: Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement

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

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