civil rights movements

Evaluates the ways in which the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 is presented in school textbooks, maintaining that most resources fail to tell the whole story about Parks and the entire civil rights movement.

Three residents of a small Southern town find their lives forever changed as they face the issue of integration in the 1960s.

Presents photographs and analysis of the civil rights movement led by Ralph David Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr., that are intended to convey the work they went through to organize marches and events.

An illustrated history of the Civil Rights movement, including a timeline and profiles of forty people who gave their lives in the movement.

Examines the trials of the men accused of murdering three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964, including the Supreme Court decision to try the defendants in a federal rather than a state court and the final verdicts which marked the first time, in Mississippi, that a jury convicted white men for killing African Americans or civil rights workers.

Biography of Martin Luther King's widow, from her childhood in rural Alabama to her crusade to keep her husband's message of peace and equality alive after his murder in 1968.

Discusses the role of minorities and women in American history and society from 1964 to 1990.

Presents the life of the noted civil rights worker, accompanied by extensive quotations from his speeches and writings.

Introduces children to the concept of civil rights, explaining what they are, how they are protected, and what can be done to uphold them.

An introductory biography of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped African Americans win many battles for equal rights.