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Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott
(2006)
By: Freedman, Russell, 1929-2018

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
J/323.119/FREEDMAN,R

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Nonfiction J/323.119/FREEDMAN,R Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Holiday House, [2006]
©2006
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xi, 114 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0823420310 (hardcover), 9780823420315 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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 coming on -- Chapter notes -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses

1110

1110L

A Junior Library Guild selection

Winner of the 2007 Jane Addams Honor Book Award for Older Children

Additional Titles

TITLES

Freedom walkers

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SUBJECTS

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.

Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.

Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.

Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.

Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.

Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956.

African Americans -- Civil rights.

Civil rights workers.

Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations.

Civil rights movements.

Biographies.

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AHML Diversity book project -- Black interest

AHML Diversity book project -- Equity & social issues