Freedom Riders RLB: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
By Ann Bausum.
Description
Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis, growing up in black America, and Jim Zwerg, growing up in white America, 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. No other book on the Freedom Riders has used such a personal perspective. These two young men, empowered by their successes in the Nashville student movement, were among those who volunteered to continue the ...
ISBN(s)
0792241746, 9780792241744
