Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
by Brimner, Larry Dane
Robert F. Sibert Informational Award/HonCarter G. Woodson Award/HonorU.S.FreedomsMinority RightsPrejudice & DiscriminationRace & Race Relations
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AR Book Level
7.0
AR Points
2
Word Count
8,912
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
194620 EN
About this book
For twelve days in May 1961, 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. The text contains racial violence.
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