"Booker T. Washington was an educated black man who was very influential in the transition in the United States from the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery to the election of President Barack Obama. He believed education was key in helping lift African Americans out of poverty and built the Tuskegee Institute to provide that education"--Amazon.com.
A biography of Rosa Parks that provides background information on her involvement in the civil rights movement, discussing her arrest for failing to give up her seat on a bus, which started the Montgomery bus boycott.
Biography of "mother of the Civil Rights Movement" Ida B. Wells-Barnett examines the personal barriers she faced, her work exposing America's horrific racial violence, and her tireless crusade to end the practice of lynching.
Profiles famed civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall, whose successful arguing of the Brown v. Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court led to a landmark ruling overturning school segregation, and later became the nation's first black Supreme Court justice.
Profiles civil rights activist Rosa Parks, whose famous refusal to go to the back of a segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 became a test case for the validity of segregation laws, as well as an inciting incident in the Civil Rights Movement.
Biography of the famed civil rights leader examines his life, his legacy, and his use of nonviolent civil disobedience to fight discrimination and help bring lasting change to America.
Profiles politician John Lewis, an early civil rights leader who participated in the famed March on Selma and went on to become a U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district.
