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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
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Description
A celebration of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing Civil Rights Movement.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"This illuminating program, filmed during a guided tour of civil rights landmarks, blends potent archival footage and photos with group discussion to sensitively explore race relations in the U.S. Visits to Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham, Memphis, Atlanta, Orangeburg, and other locations, combined with eyewitness accounts of key events by survivors of those years, steer the group's dialogue. Together, these concerned individuals--white as well as black--grapple...