Freedom Summer
Parámetros
- 32 páginas
- 2 horas de lectura
Más información sobre el libro
<i>John Henry swims better than anyone I know. He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster, but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me. He's not allowed.</i> Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to swim. But there's one important way they're different: Joe is white and John Henry is black and in the South in 1964, that means John Henry isn't allowed to do everything his best friend is. Then a law is passed that forbids segregation and opens the town pool to everyone. Joe and John Henry are so excited they race each other there...only to discover that it takes more than a new law to change people's hearts. This stirring account of the "Freedom Summer" that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 powerfully and poignantly captures two boys' experience with racism and their friendship that defies it.
Compra de libros
Freedom Summer, Deborah Wiles, Jerome Lagarrigue
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2001
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa dura)
Métodos de pago
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- Título
- Freedom Summer
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Deborah Wiles, Jerome Lagarrigue
- Editorial
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Publicado en
- 2001
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 32
- ISBN10
- 0689830165
- ISBN13
- 9780689830167
- Serie
- Categorías
- Etiquetas
- Amistad, Cultura y Sociedad, Historias de vida, Historia de EE. UU., Raza, Racismo, Literatura afroamericana, Sur de Estados Unidos, Años 60 del siglo XX, Segregación
- Descripción
- <i>John Henry swims better than anyone I know. He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster, but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me. He's not allowed.</i> Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to swim. But there's one important way they're different: Joe is white and John Henry is black and in the South in 1964, that means John Henry isn't allowed to do everything his best friend is. Then a law is passed that forbids segregation and opens the town pool to everyone. Joe and John Henry are so excited they race each other there...only to discover that it takes more than a new law to change people's hearts. This stirring account of the "Freedom Summer" that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 powerfully and poignantly captures two boys' experience with racism and their friendship that defies it.