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  title info:
    title: Buses are a comin'
    sub title: memoir of a freedom rider
  name:
    name part: Person, Charles
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rooker, Richard
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Prologue: A mother's arms -- Life in the bottom -- Awakenings -- Do something -- The leader of the pack -- Man of Morehouse -- On my way -- Those who came before -- Training in Washington, D.C. -- First days -- Shoe-in -- Trouble comes a-calling -- Home in Atlanta -- Mother's day -- Mother's day, part II -- The day after -- Resolution -- Aftermath -- Epilogue: The cost of the ticket.
  target audience: juvenile
  note: Charles Person with Richard Rooker.
  note: Illustrations on endpapers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Person, Charles
  subject:
    topic: African American civil rights workers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Civil rights
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Freedom Rides, 1961
  subject:
    topic: Segregation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    topic: Segregation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / General
  classification: E185.61 .P465 2021
  classification: 323.092 B
  identifier: 9781250274199
  identifier: 1250274192
  identifier: 9781250274205
  identifier: 2020048562
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201028
    record change date: 20220908151408.5
    record identifier: in00004591632