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Gr 4-6 Freedman begins this outstanding history by reminding his audience that the injustices of racial segregation did not happen that long ago in the United States. Throughout the book, he gives accounts of how much coordination and sacrifice went into conducting the Montgomery Bus Boycottfar more than students are likely to imagine from the usual popular and oversimplified versions offered in textbooks and on television. There is a refreshing emphasis on depictions of regular people and forgotten loca...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Freedman's account of this defining episode in the fight for racial equality begins in 1949 — six years before Rosa Parks's legendary bus ride and Martin Luther King Jr.'s celebrated involvement in the cause. After a concise introduction surveying the "not so long ago" cultural landscape of the South ("strict laws...enforced a system of white supremacy"), Freedman sets the political and social stage leading up to the book's pivotal events, focusing on influential figures and describing indignities black people s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More