civil rights workers

Offers a brief overview of the life of teacher, journalist, and speaker Ida B. Wells-Barnett, focusing on her work as a civil rights activist.

An account of the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. based on personal interviews, his personal papers, FBI documents, etc.

Unita Blackwell reflects on her rise from poverty to power after she joined the civil rights movement, becoming a freedom fighter and social activist and eventually her town's mayor.

Presents a comprehensive study of the 1961 Freedom Rides from Washington DC to the deep south that challenged the segregated transit laws, and describes the brutal confrontation between the riders and the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama and Mississippi.

Presents a comprehensive biography of Asa Philip Randolph and traces his work and involvement in the fight for racial equality and civil rights during the early twentieth century.

Tells the life story of American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, describing his pacifism, his work with such figures as Martin Luther King, Jr., and A. Philip Randolph, and the challenges he faced within the activist community because of his homosexuality.

Evaluates the ways in which the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 is presented in school textbooks, maintaining that most resources fail to tell the whole story about Parks and the entire civil rights movement.

An illustrated history of the Civil Rights movement, including a timeline and profiles of forty people who gave their lives in the movement.

Presents volume seven of an eight-volume series on political assassinations, and chronicles the life of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr., the events that led to his murder in 1968 by James Earl Ray, the conspiracy theories that followed, and the legacy he left behind. murdered him, and his association with Louis Farrakhan.

An illustrated biography of nineteenth-century activist Ida B. Wells, focusing on her crusade against the practice of lynching, and discussing her role in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the campaign for women's voting rights.