Freedom's Children

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Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
Author: Levine, Ellen S.
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Time Period: Modern Age
Time Frame: 1954-1968
Geographic Area: North America
Country: United States
Topics: Civil Rights, Segregation, Resistance
Genre: Non Fiction, Biography
Reading Age: Upper Middle Grade, Young Adult
Format: Chapter Book
Published: 2000


American History > Modern Age > African American History

In this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-to sit in an all-white restaurant and demand to be served, to refuse to give up a seat at the front of the bus, to be among the first to integrate the public schools, and to face violence, arrest, and even death for the cause of freedom.

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