Book
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
by Ann Bausum
- Published
- 2006
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 79
- Words
- 14243
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 7.8
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 1090L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–17
Focusing on John Lewis and Jim Zwerg, one Black and one white, Ann Bausum recounts the 1961 Freedom Rides and the young activists who used nonviolent protest to challenge segregated interstate travel despite brutal mob violence and enormous personal risk.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780792241737
- ISBN-10
- 0792241738
Tags
ALSC NotablesBehavior-BraveryBiographyCivil Rights MovementHistory-American/U.S. HistoryNonfictionPeople-African AmericanSocial Issues-Prejudice & DiscriminationSocial Issues-Violence