civil rights

Type: 
Topical Term
Subfield: 
x
Alias: 
civil rights

Brown v. Board of Education

the battle for equal education
2005
Presents an account of the famous Supreme Court case which led to the outlawing of racial segregation in public schools.

The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who started it

the memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
1987
An autobiographical account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56, focusing on the role of the Women's Political Council in the successful protest by African-Americans against segregation in the city's public transportation system.

An eyewitness history of the civil rights movement

1999
Presents hundreds of firsthand accounts of key events in the Civil Rights movement, covering a period that ranges from 1954 through 1965; and includes narrative introductions to each chapter, a chronology of events, a biographical dictionary, a bibliography, and photographs.

Free at last

the struggle for civil rights
2000
A collection of short stories, poems, biographical accounts, and essays about the struggle for civil rights that address the question, "How do we achieve the ideal of equal rights for all?".

I have a dream

writings and speeches that changed the world
1992
Contains Martin Luther King Jr.'s twenty most memorable writings and speeches.

Oh, freedom!

kids talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the people who made it happen
1997
Interviews between young people and people who took part in the civil rights movement accompany essays that describe the history of efforts to make equality a reality for African-Americans.

Freedom Rides

journey for justice
1995
Discusses the history of segregation in the United States, explaining how the Freedom Rides played a part in the civil rights movement.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

the dream of peaceful revolution
1990
A biography of the Nobel Peace Prize winner who showed us that a struggle can be waged without violence.

Rosa Parks

1994
The biography of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman who by her refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus ignited a citywide bus boycott that sparked the entire civil rights movement.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

America's great nonviolent leader in the struggle for human rights
1988
Recounts the life of Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - civil rights