civil rights workers

Tells the story of Jesse Jackson and his role in America's civil rights movement.

Presents the lives and careers of the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress and his wife, an activist in the struggle for black majority rights in South Africa.

An illustrated biography of civil rights leader Wesley Wallace Law, who helped to end segregation in Savannah, Georgia during the 1960s.

Describes the life of Martin Luther King and the origin and celebration of the holiday in his honor.

Follows the life and career of the African-American civil rights worker who has run for the presidential nomination twice.

A biography of the African-American woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama.

A brief biography of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who in 1955, refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, leading to a year-long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Profiles approximately sixty individuals who played significant roles in the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Medgar Evers, and Diane Nash, and includes a glossary and a further reading list.

Profiles the Baptist minister who led the nonviolent struggle for African Americans' civil rights during the 1960s.

Photographs and text trace the progression of the civil rights movement and its effect on history through biographical sketches of four prominent and influential African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.