Author : Pamela Chanko
Publisher : Scholastic Teaching Resources
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 2007-04
Category : African American women
ISBN : 9780439774208
Engaging 16-page books on must-know, inspiring Americans. Features lively text, captions, realistic illustrations, glossaries, diagrams, and more. Correlate with Guided Reading Levels I and J. For use with Grades K–2.
Author : James Peck
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1962
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Larry Dane Brimner
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1629799173
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner “An engaging and accessible account” for young readers about the Freedom Riders who led the landmark 1961 protests against segregation on buses (School Library Journal) On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite the fact that segregation on buses crossing state lines was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1946, and segregation in interstate transportation facilities was ruled unconstitutional in 1960, these rulings were routinely ignored in the South. The thirteen Freedom Riders intended to test the laws and draw attention to the lack of enforcement with their peaceful protest. As the Riders traveled deeper into the South, they encountered increasing violence and opposition. Noted civil rights author Larry Dane Brimner relies on archival documents and rarely seen images to tell the riveting story of the little-known first days of the Freedom Ride.
Author : Sue Lawson
Publisher : Walker Books Australia
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1925126528
There's no hiding from prejudice. Robbie knows bad things happen in Walgaree. But it's nothing to do with him. That's just the way the Aborigines have always been treated. In the summer of 1965 racial tensions in the town are at boiling point, and something headed Walgaree's way will blow things apart. It's time for Robbie to take a stand. Nothing will ever be the same. A novel based on true events.
Author : Ann Curthoys
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781864489224
1965 bus trip to protest discrimination in NSW country towns.
Author : Pam Muñoz Ryan
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545360293
A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a distinctive new author treatment.In this fast-paced, courageous, and inspiring story, readers adventure with Charlotte Parkhurst as she first finds work as a stable hand, becomes a famous stage-coach driver (performing brave feats and outwitting bandits), finds love as a woman but later resumes her identity as a man after the loss of a baby and the tragic death of her husband, and ultimately settles out west on the farm she'd dreamed of having since childhood. It wasn't until after her death that anyone discovered she was a woman.
Author : Fred D. Gray
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1588382869
"Lawyer for Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Montgomery bus boycott, the Tuskegee syphilis study, the desegregation of Alabama schools and the Selma march, and founder of the Tuskegee human and civil rights multicultural center."
Author : Raymond Arsenault
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0199792429
The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. In this new version of his encyclopedic Freedom Riders, Raymond Arsenault offers a significantly condensed and tautly written account. With characters and plot lines rivaling those of the most imaginative fiction, this is a tale of heroic sacrifice and unexpected triumph. Arsenault recounts how a group of volunteers--blacks and whites--came together to travel from Washington DC through the Deep South, defying Jim Crow laws in buses and terminals and putting their lives on the line for racial justice. News photographers captured the violence in Montgomery, shocking the nation and sparking a crisis in the Kennedy administration. Here are the key players--their fears and courage, their determination and second thoughts, and the agonizing choices they faced as they took on Jim Crow--and triumphed. Winner of the Owsley Prize Publication is timed to coincide with the airing of the American Experience miniseries documenting the Freedom Rides "Arsenault brings vividly to life a defining moment in modern American history." --Eric Foner, The New York Times Book Review "Authoritative, compelling history." --William Grimes, The New York Times "For those interested in understanding 20th-century America, this is an essential book." --Roger Wilkins, Washington Post Book World "Arsenault's record of strategy sessions, church vigils, bloody assaults, mass arrests, political maneuverings and personal anguish captures the mood and the turmoil, the excitement and the confusion of the movement and the time." --Michael Kenney, The Boston Globe
Author : Sadie Johnson
Publisher : Author House
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 149186673X
When the two Orange County police officers arrived they informed me that my husband can get as drunk or as high as he wants in his own place. If he steps out of the apartment high or beating me up they will get involved. He kept me locked out of my apartment for an hour.
Author : Alan Murray
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1460702557
A wholly charming, sweetly funny story of one young good-hearted Italian man. It's about life, bicycles, the joy of the journey and the simple beauty of a life well-lived. 'Witty, moving and profound, this is the most enjoyable story I have read this year; a book to be treasured.' toowoomba Chronicle Luigi's Freedom Ride is a charming treat of a novel - as sunny, light and enjoyable as a strawberry gelato eaten in an Italian piazza on a summer's day. Luigi is a young Italian boy growing up in tuscany in the 1920s, dreaming of cowboys and adventure, when a young Englishman, passing through on his way to Rome, gives him his first bicycle, thus sparking a lifelong passion. When World War II begins, Luigi enlists with the Bersaglieri, the Italian Army Cycling Corps (naturally), before unexpectedly finding himself fighting alongside the Partisans. Despite encountering great sorrow and tragedy, Luigi's zest for life remains undiminished, and his next adventure sees him cycling through the Holy Land, turkey and Sri Lanka before finding an unexpected home - and an extraordinary surprise - in Australia. An irrepressibly optimistic, sweetly funny story, Luigi's Freedom Ride is about life, bicycles and the joy of the journey - showing how even a small life, lived in the shadow of great events, can be rich in contentment and spirit. 'From the very first page of Luigi's Freedom Ride you know you are in for a treat of a story. this is a delightfully optimistic novel about life, bicycles and the joy of the journey ... gorgeously crafted with a perceptive ear for the flamboyance of Italian life, customs and expression. It traverses the brutality of war, of displacement and the struggle of building a new life in a foreign land, yet cleverly avoids the sentimentality or cliche ... this is a story of hope and humanity with a sweet flourish of humour.' Newtown Review of Books
