civil rights workers

A biography of the black South African leader who became a civil rights activist, political prisoner, and president of South Africa.

A biography of the woman whose refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Features quotations from Parks and others.

Interviews between young people and people who took part in the civil rights movement accompany essays that describe the history of efforts to make equality a reality for African-Americans.

Portrays the life of this multi-faceted African-American poet, author, and educator.

A biography of the Nobel Peace Prize winner who showed us that a struggle can be waged without violence.

The biography of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman who by her refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus ignited a citywide bus boycott that sparked the entire civil rights movement.

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

A biography of the civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights.

Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants.

Examines the life of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who helped African-Americans win many battles for equal rights.