In the late winter and spring of 1973, a group of Native Americans voiced their grievances at Wounded Knee, South Dakota such as substandard living conditions on the reservation, corruption within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and unfilled treaty provisions. This action by the American Indian Movement (AIM) led Congress to pass new legislation such as the Indian Self-Determination and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act.
Introduces the ethnic and group identity movements spawned by the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Covers groups marginalized by mainstream American society by a particular characteristic such as ethnic origin, race, age, disability, and sexual orientation.
Presents a series of fourteen controversial essays that debate issues associated with racial profiling, including U.S. policy regarding profiling in a post September 11 society.
A biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, tracing her childhood and youth as a coffee picker and maid in Guatemala, and discussing her efforts to secure rights and better living conditions for the Quiche-Mayan people.
A biography of Bayard Rustin, a skillful organizer behind the scenes of the American civil rights movement whose ideas stongly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chronicles, through her own reminiscences, letters, speeches, and stories, the experiences of the Yankton Indian woman whose life spanned the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.
Traces the development of the disability-rights movement in fighting discrimination against the handicapped and in securing civil rights for the disabled.
Text and accompanying photographs present the story of two African American girls who tell their memories of the civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama, in which they participated when they were eight and nine years old.
Describes the life of the Omaha Indian woman who fought for Indians' rights, becoming the first American Indian lecturer and the first published Indian artist.
Examines the life of the civil rights worker who organized for freedom and was a key figure in the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
