01852cam a2200349 4500 344807782 TxAuBib 20180411120000.0 170331s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017937780 9781629795867 1629795860 (OCoLC)978650548 TxAuBib Brimner, Larry Dane. Twelve days in May : Freedom Ride 1961 / Larry Dane Brimner. 12 days in May. First edition. Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, [2017] ©2017. 111 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen 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. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled. 20180412. Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, 2018. Freedom Rides, 1961 Young adult non-fiction. Civil rights movements United States History 20th century Young adult non-fiction. Civil rights Young adult non-fiction. African American civil rights workers Young adult non-fiction. African Americans Young adult non-fiction. https://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/DECRead?standardNoType=1&standardNo=1629795860&sessionid=0&srcdbname=worldcat&key=b3ab90f43904865ebe3d9a601b3e5126f68ecf96697986b0267c5b26182aa6ca&ectype=MOREINFO More Info