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Npr: Fresh Air: James Farmer Jr., Freedom Ride Organizer AudioNpr: Fresh Air: James Farmer Jr., Freedom Ride Organizer Audio
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NPR: National Public Radio
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Audio
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Lexile Measures
1150L
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Npr: Fresh Air: James Farmer Jr., Freedom Ride Organizer

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Read the background of James Farmer, Jr. and his actions during the Freedom Rides throughout the South in the summer of 1961. Listen to the complete interview he had with Terry Gross on National Public Radio's Fresh Air in 1985 that talks about his ideas of nonviolent resistance and how that would be carried out in attempts to end segregation.

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civil rights activists, nonviolent resistance, core, challenges to segregation, civil rights movement, congress of racial equality, freedom riders, james farmer jr., npr, southern racism

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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