Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott
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Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott
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Physical Description:
xi, 114 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Summary:
Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which brought the end of segregation on buses.
Contents:
Map -- Montgomery, Alabama, 1955-1956 -- Introduction: Why they walked -- Jo Ann Robinson -- Claudette Colvin -- Rosa Parks -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Boycott heroes -- Proud to be arrested -- Walking to victory -- Children are coming on -- Chapter notes -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Audience/Lexile:
1110 L
Reading Program:
ACCELERATED READER, INTEREST= GRADES 5-8 BOOK LEVEL= 7.7 POINTS= 3 SD QUIZ 107528 ENGLISH NON-FICTION, VOCABULARY QUIZ AVAILABLE.
Publication Information:
New York : Holiday House, 2009, c2006.
Subject:
| Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956 -- Juvenile literature. |
| African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature. |
| African Americans -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. |
| Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. |
| Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature. |
| Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature. |
| Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature. |
| Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. |
| African Americans -- United States |
| Afro-Americans |
| Black Americans |
| Colored people (United States) |
| Negroes |
| Civil rights activists |
| Race relations reformers |
| Discrimination in transportation |
| Civil liberation movements |
| Liberation movements (Civil rights) |
| Protest movements (Civil rights) |
| City of Montgomery (Ala.) |
SAILS ISBN:
9780823420315
9780823421954