Explains the history of the struggle for equal education in the United States and how the case Brown v. Board of Education and came to be and what impact it made.
Gloriana faces her twelfth birthday in 1964 and struggles with the changes she sees happening around her, but while she struggles to understand the shift in her relationships with her sister--who is about to enter high school--and her best friend, Frankie, Gloriana witnesses tempers rise in a debate over a segregated public pool.
When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them. Includes facts about "The Green Book.".
While on a trip in 1956 to visit her grandmother in the South, six-year-old Sarah Marie experiences segregation for the first time, but discovers that things have changed by the time she returns the following year.
"What was the civil rights activist Rosa Parks like as a child? Following young Rosa from a fishing creek to a one-room schoolhouse, from her wearing homemade clothes to wondering what "white" water tastes like, this book highlights the early experiences that shaped one of the most famous African-Americans in history"--Provided by publisher.
The story of the Freedom Riders, who boarded buses in Washington, D.C., for New Orleans, Louisiana, as a way to draw attention to the lack of enforcement of the laws prohibiting segregation on buses crossing state lines and at bus stations.
Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on events of the early 1960s, including conflicts between the U.S. and Soviet Union, and the stand-off between civil rights activists and segregationists.
