civil rights movements

Explores one of the most important social justice movements in American history, the civil rights movement.

Presents information on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States between 1954 and 1968, focusing on events and figures from African American history.

"James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the Civil Rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In the era of Trump, what can we learn from his struggle? Mixing biography--drawn partially from . . . interviews--with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our . . . moment, [this book] is [the author's] attempt, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America. It is at once an . . . exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and an . . . interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America"--Provided by publisher.

When most Americans think of the civil rights movement, they think of the organized struggle for equality in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the civil rights movement actually has its roots in the Reconstruction era of the late nineteenth century as the country tried to rebuild itself after the Civil War. In this book, students will read accounts from early civil rights activists and leaders like Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Booker T. Washington, as well as from mainstays of the later movement like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Other primary sources, such as poems and Supreme Court decisions, fill in the details about the fight against racial injustice in the United States. Students will gain a better understanding of the long road to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation, and the legacy of the civil rights movement.

Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading the way.

"When Sharon Langley was born, amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed in. This picture book tells how a community came together--both black and white--to make a change. In the summer of 1963, because of demonstrations and public protests the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Sharon and her parents were the first African American family to walk into the park, and Sharon was the first African American child to ride the merry-go-round. This was on the same day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Sharon's ride to remember demonstrated the possibilities of King's dream ... The carrousel, fully functional, now resides on the National Mall, near the Air and Space Museum"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the true stories of African American heroes who risked their lives in the American civil rights movement.

". . . Learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of the civil rights movement"--Provided by publisher.

A collage-illustrated collection of free form poems describing the life and work of civil rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer.

"From the 1940s to the 1960s, Cassie Logan journeys around the country, ultimately returning home to Mississippi where she witnesses the Great Migration north and the rise of the Civil Rights Movement"--Provided by publisher.