A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.
Demonstrates how lessons and advances from the Civil Rights Movement can be applied to modern discussions of social inequality. Discusses how ordinary citizens can guide themselves through social change in order to form a more peaceful society.
Traces the history of the conflict in Ireland, from raids during Queen Elizabeth's reign to the present day, explains how the country was divided in 1921, and discusses the formation of political parties in Eire and Northern Ireland.
Biography of John Lewis, civil rights worker and member of the House of Representatives, discussing his participation in several events in the civil rights movement during the 1960s and 1970s and his terms as a congressman from Georgia during the late 1980s and 1990s.
