Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott

Title
: 
Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott

Author
: 
Freedman, Russell, 1929-2018

ISBN
: 
9780823420315

Edition
: 
1st ed.

Publication Information
: 
New York : Holiday House, c2006.

Physical Description
: 
xi, 114 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Contents
: 
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 are coming on -- Chapter notes -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Reading Level
: 
1110 L Lexile

Subject Term
: 
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956.
 
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.
 
Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.

Geographic Term
: 
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations.
 
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.

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


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Bayport Public LibraryJ 323.1196 FRENonfiction Collection
Stillwater Public LibraryJ 323.1196 FRENonfiction Collection