Freedom's Children : Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

by Levine, Ellen S.

• ISBN13: 9780698118706
• ISBN10: 0698118707
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781101076170
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Puffin
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Ellen S. Levine is a web producer, writer, editor, and consultant in marketing and publicity.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Introduction	xi
The Color Bar: Experiences of Segregation	3	(14)
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Beginning of the Movement	17	(15)
Different Classrooms: Segregation and Integration in the Schools	32	(26)
Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and Other Protests	58	(19)
The Children's Crusade	77	(15)
The Closed Society: Mississippi and Freedom Summer	92	(24)
Bloody Sunday and the Selma Movement	116	(22)
Epilogue	138	(5)
Chronology	143	(5)
Who's Who	148	(9)
Acronyms	157	(1)
Bibliographical Note	158	(2)
Index	160