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John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
National Geographic
January 2006
On Sale: December 27, 2005
80 pages
ISBN: 0792241738
EAN: 9780792241737
Hardcover
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Young Adult
Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis, growing up in black America, and Jim Zwerg, growing up in white America, in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It 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. No other book on the Freedom Riders has used such a personal perspective. These two young men, empowered by their successes in the Nashville student movement, were among those who volunteered to continue the Freedom Rides after violence in Anniston, Alabama, had left the original bus in flames with the riders injured and in retreat. Lewis and Zwerg joined the cause knowing their own fate could be equally harsh, if not worse. The historic journey they shared as Freedom Riders through the Deep South changed not only their own lives but our nation's history.
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