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Summary: A biography of the first African American basketball player in the Southeastern Conference details his struggles against racism, persistence of will, and role as a civil rights trailblazer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
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Summary: Bausum 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. The book 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 323.092 BAUBausum, Ann.
Summary: How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom during the civil rights movement of the 1960s? 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 BAUPinkney, Andrea Davis.
Summary: "This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1 PINMortensen, Lori
Summary: "The Civil Rights Movement brought about major changes in the United States, including the legal end of segregation between African-Americans and white Americans. Explore the points of view of the activists who fought for change and the people who opposed them through powerful primary sources and historical photos"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015