civil rights

The King Years delivers riveting tales of everyday heroes who achieved miracles in constructive purpose and yet poignantly fell short. Here is the full sweep of an era that still reverberates in national politics. Its legacy remains unsettled; there are further lessons to be discovered before free citizens can once again move officials to address the most intractable, fearful dilemmas. This vital primer amply fulfills its author?s dedication: ?For students of freedom and teachers of history.?.

Presents the case of a white seventeen-year-old Groveland, Florida, girl who cried rape against four young African American men and discusses how Thurgood Marshall became embroiled in the explosive and deadly case.

During his yearlong tour of duty, Sergeant Joseph Hickman saw Guantanamo from the inside---the chaotic prisons, the detainee abuse---and stumbled onto a mystery, a secret facility he and his fellow soldiers labeled "Camp No". When three prisoners died on June 9, 2006, they were labeled suicides. But Sergeant Hickman knew that something was seriously wrong. As he searched for the truth, he realized the U.S. government was using Guantanamo not just as a prison, but as a training ground for interrogators to test advanced torture techniques. His book details the inner workings of Camp Delta, the events surrounding the deaths of the three prisoners, the orchestrated cover-up, and the secret facility at the heart of it all.

Set in 1965, during the turbulent early days of the right-to-vote movement. The story of a young schoolgirl in Selma, Alabama, who is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to resist the degradation that her fellow African-Americans are suffering.

Explores the Civil Rights movement including the efforts to end segregation of African Americans and to obtain equal rights for other ethnic groups, women, and the disabled. Uses archival footage and interviews to provide an account of the people, events, and legislation of the times.

In World War II more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and relocate to military camps dotted across the western United States. Tells the story of the 16,000 men, women, and children who were sent to two relocation camps in southeast Arkansas - one of the poorest and most racially segregated places in America.

Takes a look at the life and times of Rosa Parks, from her childhood in Tuskegee, Alabama to her act of defiance that was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.

Presents information, in simple text with illustrations, about the events of August 28, 1963, when protesters gathered in Washington D.C. to draw attention to discrimination against African-Americans and to hear Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his now famous "I Have a Dream" speech.