Twelve Days in May
Subtitle: Freedom Ride 1961
By: Larry Dane Brimner
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Calkins Creek; Calkins Creek, an imprint of Hightlights
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Honesdale, Pennsylvania
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781629795867
Subjects: African American civil rights workers; Race relations; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; Freedom Rides, 1961; History; African Americans; Biography; Civil rights workers
Description: For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the  Freedom Riders,  traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled.
Notes: 9YA Childrens Plus, Inc.

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