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Author Person, Charles, author.

Title Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider / Charles Person, with Richard Rooker.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
©2021

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  323.1196 PERSON    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY PERSON    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  BIOG. PERSON, C.    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  323.1196 PERSON    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  B PERSON    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  323.1196 PERSON    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  323.1196 PERSON    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY PERSON    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  323.1196 PER    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B PERSON    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-284) and index.
Summary "A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward-written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists-including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of Racial Equality Director James Farmer, Reverend Benjamin Elton Cox, journalist and pacifist James Peck, and CORE field secretary Genevieve Hughes-set out to discover whether America would abide by a Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation unconstitutional in bus depots, waiting areas, restaurants, and restrooms nationwide. The Freedom Riders found their answer. No. Southern states would continue to disregard federal law and use violence to enforce racial segregation. One bus was burned to a shell; the second, which Charles rode, was set upon by a mob that beat the Riders nearly to death. Buses Are a Comin' provides a front-row view of the struggle to belong in America, as Charles leads his colleagues off the bus, into the station, into the mob, and into history to help defeat segregation's violent grip on African American lives. It is also a challenge from a teenager of a previous era to the young people of today: become agents of transformation. Stand firm. Create a more just and moral country where students have a voice, youth can make a difference, and everyone belongs"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Freedom Rides, 1961.
Person, Charles.
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
Segregation -- United States.
HISTORY / United States / General.
African American civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00799093
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
Segregation. (OCoLC)fst01111205
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Added Author Rooker, Richard, author.
Added Title Buses are coming
ISBN 9781250274199 (hardcover)
1250274192 (hardcover)
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