african american civil rights workers

A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.

Graphic memoir that brings to life a vivid portrait of the civil rights era.

Explains why we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.

Describes the group of blacks and whites who traveled on public buses bound for the deep south in 1961 in order to test whether segregation was still being practiced in spite of the ruling of the Supreme Court in Boynton v. Virginia (1960).

Myrlie Evers has fought for years to see the man who murdered her husband, African-American civil rights worker Medgar Evers, brought to justice. Yet, after two hung juries and 30 years, justice has not come. Finally, in the 1990s, a brave lawyer reopens the case to fight for the conviction of the murderer.

Presents biographical sketches of over twenty key figures in the civil rights movement, including W.E.B. DuBois, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Josephine Ruffin.

Tells the life story of African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, describing his childhood in Mississippi, his work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for equality and justice in the South, and his assassination.

Explores how Dr. King's ideas, thoughts, and causes evolved in the face of the rapidly changing climate of the civil rights movement.

Presents a photographic tour of the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site in Atlanta, discusses his life and his achievements in the civil rights movement, and describes related Web sites.