Presents twenty accounts of African-American reform by the reformers themselves, spanning the eighteenth through the twentieth century; includes works by Olaudah Equiano, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Rosa Parks, and several others.
Biography of John Lewis, civil rights worker and member of the House of Representatives, discussing his participation in several events in the civil rights movement during the 1960s and 1970s and his terms as a congressman from Georgia during the late 1980s and 1990s.
Presents a comprehensive study of the 1961 Freedom Rides from Washington DC to the deep south that challenged the segregated transit laws, and describes the brutal confrontation between the riders and the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama and Mississippi.
Presents twenty accounts of African-American reform by the reformers themselves, spanning the eighteenth through the twentieth century; includes works by Olaudah Equiano, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Rosa Parks, and several others.
Profiles prominent men and women of the civil rights movement, including Charles Houston, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young, Julian Bond, and Jesse Jackson.
Charles Cobb offers a guided tour of key places in eight Southern states where influential events in the civil rights movement took place, with an overview of the event that took place at each location and its influence on the movement, as well as the people that took part and the lasting legacy it had.
