civil rights movements

A fictionalized account of the author's years growing up in Great Neck, New York, during the turbulent civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, when African-Americans were struggling to attain equality, with his father, who was a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Includes commentary from the author's father, Jack Greenberg.

The true story behind the writing of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.

Presents a brief analysis of the civil rights movement in America, the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, segregation, Montgomery bus boycott and sit-in's, the March on Washington, and voting rights.

A biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. covering his childhood, leadership, powerful speeches, assassination, andgreatest influences.

As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963 and violence against African-Americans intensifies, residents of the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice.

Discusses the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest against the infringement of African Americans' civil rights, including the backlash caused by the boycott and the effects of the start of the Civil Rights Movement.

A look at the history of the civil rights movement in the United States, covering significant events and people.

"Unlike the Civil Rights Movement's emphasis on the rhetoric and practice of nonviolence and social and political goal of integration, Black Power was defined by the promotion of Black self-determination, Black consciousness, independent Black politics, and the practice of armed self-defense. Black Power changed communities, curriculums, and culture in the United States and served as an inspiration for social justice internationally. This unique two-volume set provides readers with an understanding of Black Power's important role in the turbulence, social change, and politics of the 1960s and 1970s in America and how the concepts of the movement continue to influence contemporary Black politics, culture, and identity." -- Publisher's description.

In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African-Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.