discrimination in public accommodations

A biography of the Alabama African-American woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.

"Tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members to take part in organized protests and direct actions ensured that local libraries would become genuinely free to all citizens"--OCLC.

Chronicles the events surrounding the Supreme Court cases related to Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, discussing how the Supreme Court's decisions impacted the civil rights movement.

Traces the events in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott which began in December, 1955, and changed the course of the civil rights movement.