This is your time by Bridges, Ruby 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 150619 Available

Dewey: 370/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.5 MG Lexile: 940 F&P: W

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Subjects: Bridges, Ruby African American women - Biography Civil rights movements - Biography School integration Race relations - United States

Summary: Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges shares her story and offers a call to action.

Twelve days in May : freedom ride 1961 by Brimner, Larry Dane 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2017)

BTSB #: 151826 Available

Dewey: 323.1/NAges: 10-18   
AR: 7 MG Lexile: 1080

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Subjects: Civil rights workers Civil rights movements Freedom Rides|y1961 Segregation Race relations - United States Southern States

Summary: 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.