Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides
The Power of Nonviolent Resistance
The Library of the Civil Rights Movement
This book documents the history of students who created real social change through peaceful sit-Ins and freedom rides during the early sixties to protest segregation. Students who created social change through nonviolent practices are exciting and interesting to young readers today! The Freedom Riders and the violence that they encountered illustrate the important roles that determined students played during this great time of change in American history.
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Book Review--"Does a fine job of making the civil rights era accessible to young readers."
--School Library Journal
Series Review--
"Provide solid overviews supported visually and textually through primary sources. Well-documented and attractive."
--School Library Journal
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"The archival images and reproductions of documents put a human face on the court cases, and are the books' best features."
--School Library Journal
Series Review--
"These easy-to-read books will do a fine job of making the turbulent civil rights era accessible to young readers."
--School Library Journal
