civil rights

Chronicles the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott sparked by Mrs. Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat to a white male, describing the plans and problems of a nonviolent campaign, reprisals by the white community, and the eventual attainment of desegrated city bus service.

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

Tells of the freedom riders and other civil rights movements in the Southern States in the 1960s.

Chronicles the 1961 freedom rides involving African-American and white activists who traveled on buses from Washington D.C. to the South in order to test the U.S. Supreme Court decision against segregation in bus stations.

Presents an account of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom which took place on August 28, 1963, examines events that inspired the march, and discusses the history of the civil rights movement.

The story of Coretta Scott King covering her childhood and her help in leading the civil rights movement.

An overview of the Fourteenth Amendment that describes its history, purpose, components, and illustrative court cases, and includes the U.S. Constitution and a further-reading list.

A brief biography of the Baptist minister who was largely responsible for uniting American blacks in their fight for civil rights.

A biography of the Afro-American minister and civil rights worker who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988.

Presents the history of the holiday named for civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., celebrated on the third Monday of every January.