Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance

By Jake Miller

This book documents the history of students who created real social change through peaceful sit-Ins and freedom rides during the early sixties to protest segregation. Students who created social change through nonviolent practices are exciting and interesting to young readers today! The Freedom Riders and the violence that they encountered illustrate the important roles that determined students played during this great time of change in American history.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823962539
• ISBN13: 9780823962532
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: PowerKids Press
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.1" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 5 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 5