Profiles the life and works of Marcus Garvey, the controversial leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association during the early twentieth century, and his attempts to organize the Pan-African movement, designed to create a separate nation in Africa.
Examines the plight of pre-Civil War African-Americans who were freemen, and describes the laws and restrictions placed upon them in the mid-seventeenth century and the roles they played in American society.
Examines the civil rights movement of the twentieth century, and discusses Jim Crow laws and segregation, desegregation of the schools, sit-in's and freedom rides, the march on Washington, and more.
Examines the forty-year study by the federal government in the treatment of syphilis in African-American males conducted at the Tuskegee Institute that eventually killed many of the four hundred infected men.
This book traces the history of the Freedom Rides of 1961, offering a thorough look at the experiences of the 1960s that have shaped the black community and the American people as a whole.
This book discusses the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery when 300 African Americans demanded that the government protect their voting rights which led to the August 6, 1965, Voting Rights Act.
This book discusses the 1931 arrest of nine young black men traveling by the rails and accused of raping two white women, detailing the trials, prison terms, results of a compromise for four of the men, and the problems of the other five men when they are released from prison.
Chronicles the events surrounding the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott that came about as a result of civil rights activist Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on the bus to a white patron.
