african american civil rights workers

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african american civil rights workers

Civil-rights activists

2012
Chronicles the lives and achievements of ten activists who have fought for civil rights, including Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Oprah Winfrey, and others.

Five bold freedom fighters

2001
Profiles five African American civil rights workers: Richard Allen, Harriet Tubman, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Medgar Wiley Evers.

The wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois

2003
Examines the achievements of African-American intellectual W.E.B. DuBois, and includes excerpts from some of his most important and revealing works.

Early Black reformers

history firsthand
2003
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.

Walking with the wind

a memoir of the movement
1999
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.

Freedom riders

1961 and the struggle for racial justice
2011
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.

Early Black reformers

2003
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.

W.E.B. Du Bois

civil rights activist, author, historian
2010
Provides an overview of the life of W. E. B. Du Bois, discussing his childhood, education, fight for social justice, challenges, and more.

American civil rights leaders

2000
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.

The story of Malcolm X

civil rights leader
1994
Relates the life story of Malcolm X, including his childhood and his leadership as a Black Muslim and as a civil rights activist.

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