civil rights workers

Portrays the life of this multi-faceted African-American poet, author, and educator.

A biography of the Nobel Peace Prize winner who showed us that a struggle can be waged without violence.

The biography of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman who by her refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus ignited a citywide bus boycott that sparked the entire civil rights movement.

Recounts the life of Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A biography of the civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights.

Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants.

Examines the life of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who helped African-Americans win many battles for equal rights.

Profiles the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and includes over eighty illustrated photographs that describe his marches, speeches, and non-violence philosophy.

Recounts the freedom ride of John Lewis and Jim Zwerg into the South in 1961 as part of the Civil Rights Movement.

Presents the story of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and the major persons and events that contributed to the year-long struggle for equal rights on Montgomery's city buses.