civil rights movements

The story of Coretta Scott King covering her childhood and her help in leading the civil rights movement.

"Describes the life, accomplishments, and assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr"--Provided by publisher.

The author describes her involvement in the civil rights movement and the way she felt at the inauguration of Barack Obama, featuring black-and-white photographs, articles from the "New York Times," and more.

Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Charles Moore photograph of three African-Americans teens being hit by a blast of water during a civil rights protest.

Examines events that led to lunch counter sit-ins in the United States during the 1960s and their influence, discussing segregation, the Freedom Rides, the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and other related topics.

Discussing events in the United States that lead up to and followed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, beginning with Plessy v. Ferguson and continuing through the election of Barack Obama, readers learn about events in this major movement within the 20th and 21st centuries.

In 1966 Illinois, twelve-year-old Wilhelmina, convinced that she, her parents, and sisters are Abraham Lincoln's family reincarnated, determines to keep them from suffering the same fates, which is complicated when she and her father become involved in the Civil Rights Movement.

Chronicles the history of sit-ins and freedom rides throughout the South during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, including the sit-in by four students from North Carolina A and T University at an all-white lunch counter that sparked sit-in movements all over the South.

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

Profiles the lives and achievements of nine civil rights leaders, including Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Fannie Lou Hamer.