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Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
by Ellen S. Levine
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Puffin (2000-12-01)
ISBN: 0698118707
EAN: 9780698118706
Binding/Media: Paperback - 192 pages
Release Date: 2000-12-01
SKU: 080710003
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: This copy is in good condition. No visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears to text. There's a name on the top inside front cover and side fore-edge. Tight spine. Tiny smooth-out dog-ears to some pages. No Dust Jacket. Front/back Soft Cover has creases/rubbing. Lots of shelf/edge wear. Apart from flaws to cover, one can get a lot of usage from this copy at an affordable price. (L13-15)
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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
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Amazon.com Review
Filled with inspiring accounts of faith and courage, this book rescues and preserves the stories of children and teenagers who contributed to the civil rights movement. All of us know, for example, of Rosa Parks, whose refusal in 1955 to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus sparked the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. Most of us don't know, however, that just months earlier high school junior Claudette Colvin had been arrested for doing the same thing. In their own words, Colvin and 29 others tell their stories in this book, reminding us once again of the broad base that helped ensure the success of the movement in the South.
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