civil rights

Examines African-American life at the close of World War II, describes the struggle for freedom and justice during the 1940s and 1950s, and discusses the explosive years of the 1960s.

Examines the life and career of the Baptist minister who supported the use of nonviolent resistance to discrimination and describes his involvement in many important events in the civil rights movement.

Focuses on the history of civil rights for African-Americans from the founding of the nation to the Million Man March.

Discusses the efforts of African Americans to achieve equality in education, employment, politics, and other areas, from the 1970s into the 1990s.

An account of the African-American press from the first African-American newspaper to the integration of African-American journalists into the mainstream of American journalism.

Recounts the historical antecedents and events leading up to the March on Washington in 1963, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., and other prominent African American leaders in their quest for equal civil rights.

Text, illustrations, and photographs discuss the fundamental role that African Americans have played in the making of the American republic.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text profile the events surrounding the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, in which, based on the rights granted by the seventeenth amendment, African-Americans demanded their right to vote.

Chronicles the struggle for civil rights in the United States from 1954 to 1990, through copies of key documents, reprints of speeches, newspaper articles, and interviews with people who had an impact on the movement.

Chronicles the events behind a white uprising that occurred when Air Force veteran James Meredith tried to become the first African-American student to register at the University of Mississippi in 1962.