civil rights movements

Traces the history of Black Power in the United States from the movement's origins in 1966 to the present, discussing the civil rights activists who have fought for the cause, the movement's impact on American history, the controversies surrounding it, and other related topics.

A biography of Stokely Carmichael, an American civil rights activist and member of the Black Power movement who helped organize the original Black Panther Party in Alabama, but made the abrupt decision at age twenty-seven to leave the United States for Africa.

Offers a detailed account of the civil rights battle in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, and discusses why those events signaled a turning point in the movement.

Commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the civil rights movement through first-hand reports and photographs depicting the climactic moments from the politicians, activists, and citizens who demanded equality for all.

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.

Interweaves the history of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr.'s rise to fame and influence, exploring the complexities of King's relationship with the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, J. Edgar Hoover's relentless hounding of the civil rights leader, and King's anticipation of his own death.

Explores the impact of photography on the civil rights movement.

In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

In 1960s Texas, the racial boundaries are crossed when a black family from the poorest section of Houston and a white family from a racist neighborhood join forces to win the freedom of five black college students who have been unjustly accused of murdering a policeman.