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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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