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Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961

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A 2018 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner

On Would possibly 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities within the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Even supposing segregation on buses crossing state lines used to be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1946, and segregation in interstate transportation facilities used to be ruled unconstitutional in 1960, these rulings were mechanically ignored within the South. The thirteen Freedom Riders intended to check the laws and draw attention to the loss of enforcement with their peaceful protest. As the Riders traveled deeper into the South, they encountered increasing violence and opposition. Noted civil rights writer Larry Dane Brimner depends on archival documents and rarely seen images to inform the riveting story of the little-known first days of the Freedom Ride. With writer’s note, source notes, bibliography, and index.

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