Grades 5-6Committee Annotation:
Rosa Parks wasn't the first person in Montgomery to refuse to give up her seat on the bus. Could your family walk to school, work, and shopping for 381 days in the peaceful fight for their rights?
Subjects: African-Americans, Civil Rights Movement, segregation, race relations, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., perseverance, cooperation.
About the author web site:
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/freedman.html
6 comments:
This was a very inspiring book. I like the name of it. It`s little biographies about black slaves. It must be hard being a white person's slave. Also it`s about other peoples life crisises and they tell some good things and some bad things in their life.
this book was amazing. it made me cry whenthe black boy was traked down and killed because he wistled at a white woman.
I like this book because it gives Non-Fiction a good name. I enjoyed that it showed you what it would be if you black skinned back then. It showed me what people did to blacks then.
-Christopher
Potowomut School
Warwick
This book was the best book I have ever read. I usually don't like non-fiction books, but this book was great. Before reading this book I thought that Rosa Parks was the first to get up from her seat, but she wasn't. I loved how the book is based on the Montgumery bus boycott, which before I read this book didn't even know that it existed. I think that it is amazing that all of those African-Americans were willing to walk miles for over a year for their freedom. I think that even the idea of starting the KKK was the worst thing in the world, especially after killing a young African-American for whistling at a white woman. So whoever is thinking about reading this book, I am strongly recomending it, even if you don't like non-fiction.
You should read this book because it tells you what people go through and how the boycott started and ended.
My favorite part was when they talked about martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, they gave you more information.
A. Cranston-Calvert
I am not a big fan of Non-Fiction books like this one, but Freedom Walkers was interesting! It was hard to put it down, and to think that all those things actually happened!
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