Fourteen-year-old Sheryl, traveling from Brooklyn to the South, is awakened to racist segregation and gets involved with her uncle who is working in the Civil Rights Movement.
ISBN: 9780140360172 | Puffin Books
Books: Fiction
Freedom Songs
Book — Fiction. By Yvette Moore. 1992. 176 pages.
When Sheryl’s Uncle Pete joins the Freedom Riders down South, she organizes a gospel concert in Brooklyn to help him.
Time Periods: 20th Century, 1961–1974
Themes: Civil Rights Movements
Levels: Grades 6-8
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