Freedoms Children. Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Story.

Levine, Ellen (Hg.):

ISBN 10: 0380721147 / ISBN 13: 9780380721146

Published by New York, Avon Flare, 1993

About this Item

204 Seiten, illustriert, Etwas schief gelesen. Einband leicht berieben mit Randläsuren. Innen einwandfrei. Gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450.

Seller Inventory # 45692

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Freedoms Children. Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Story.
• Publisher: New York, Avon Flare
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0380721147
• ISBN 13: 9780380721146
• Binding: 18 x 11 cm, Broschur.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 450 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Zeitgeschehen / 20. Jahrhundert

About this title

Synopsis

Firsthand accounts of thirty African-Americans who were children or teens during the 1950s and 1960s describe what it was like to fight segregation in the South, discussing sit-ins, marches, and other experiences. Reprint.

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.