civil rights

Focuses on John Collier's struggle with both the U.S. Congress and the Indian tribes to develop a New Deal for Indians fifty years ago.

Describes the people playing major roles in the battle for desegregation, the smaller court cases that led up to Brown v. The Board of Education, and the results and repercussions of the case.

Speeches, writings, interviews, and excerpts from five of Martin Luther King's books are presented in chronological order within topical groupings.

A biography of King, examining his life and contribution to the civil rights movement through an analysis of his nonviolent protest campaigns.

Presents a brief biography, in simple text with illustrations, of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.

Presents a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., the leader of the Civil Rights movement during the 1960s, and examines the circumstances surrounding his assassination.

Presents the case of when a white seventeen-year-old Groveland, Florida, girl cried rape against four young African American men and discusses how Thurgood Marshall became embroiled in the explosive and deadly case.

Uses the contents of FBI files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

Focuses on the theme of racism as an integral, permanent, and indestructible component of American society.

Political leader Randall Robinson argues that America owes an enormous debt to Africans and African-Americans for the incalculable damage blacks have suffered and continue to suffer as a result of nearly 250 years of slavery and segregation.