civil rights

A collection of poems by former Poet Laureate of the United States Rita Dove in which she explores the intersection of individual fates with the larger picture of history.

Recounts the story of the incarceration of mainland Japanese Americans and Alaskan Aleuts during World War II, summarizing the events surrounding the wartime relocation and detention activities and the policies that led to them.

Discusses the experiences of Japanese Americans in relocation centers during World War II, and explores the military, political, economic, racial, and personal motives of public figures concerning the evacuation.

Selections from the works of twenty-eight African-American writers reflecting their dreams of civil rights and freedom.

The oral history of 16 African Americans and 12 whites who fought for racial change and civil rights.

Explores why African-Americans are still set apart both spiritually and economically from the rest of the country more than thirty years after the civil rights movement.

Argues that the Supreme Court has undermined the "Brown v. Board of Education" ruling, "resegregating" schools and contributing to racial strife; examines the history of the fight against Jim Crow education and includes interviews with students from the "Brown" case communities at the start of the twenty-first century.

Discusses the background against which the Americans with Disabilities Act was formed.

Describes the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans in Mississippi, from the time of slavery to the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

Traces the events in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott which began in December, 1955, and changed the course of the civil rights movement.