The Freedom Riders: Civil Rights Activists Fighting Segregation / ]ckate Shoup

by Kate Shoup

Book Overview

The Supreme Court's decision in the 1960 case of Boynton v. Virginia held that any amenity related to interstate travel could not be segregated. In the South, the decision effected little change; restaurants, restrooms, and waiting rooms in bus and train terminals remained divided into white-only and black-only areas in 1961 when the Freedom Riders showed the world the ugly reality of segregation. At the outset of the Freedom Rides, thirteen men and...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1502631180
• ISBN13: 9781502631183
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12