civil rights workers

A brief introduction to the life and career of American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.

Photographs and simple text provide an introduction to the life of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Describes the life of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, nineteenth-century educator, writer, newspaper editor, and civil rights worker who was the first African-American woman to enter law school or to publish a newspaper.

Examines the life and achievements of the noted civil rights leader.

Relates events in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, childhood which sowed the seeds for his activism for equal rights for people, regardless of their color.

Presents the life and career of the long-imprisoned leader of the African National Congress.

Recounts the life of the Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King.

Examines the life of the South African bishop and civil rights worker who has worked extensively to improve conditions for his fellow citizens.

A brief biography of the African-American woman who, in refusing to obey a discriminatory rule about bus seating, set off both the Montgomery Bus Boycott and a movement that changed the nation's laws.

A biography of Coretta Scott King, discussing her childhood, family, marriage to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and her lifelong fight for civil rights.