Spotlight on the civil rights movement

Chronicles the events surrounding the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.

"In the early 1960s, the civil rights movement brought national attention to the need for equal treatment for African Americans. Activists demonstrated their opposition to unfair Jim Crow laws and racial separation by silently sitting in restaurants and other segregated places. Sit-ins proved that silence and nonviolent resistance can effectively combat injustice. Despite their peaceful intentions, protesters often found themselves targets of people opposed to racial integration. Readers will learn about the factors behind these groundbreaking protests as well as the key civil rights figures who rose to prominence during a turbulent era in United States history."--Provided by publisher.

Looks at the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Chronicles the life and career of political activist Malcom X.

Chronicles the events surrounding the Freedom Riders who were a group of civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, beginning in 1961, to protest segregation in the southern states.

Readers will experiencing the desegregation crisis and a time of clashing attitudes that would affect all Little Rock's students, black and white, and the rest of the country's as well.

Explores the events leading up to and surrounding President Lyndon B. Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

Explores the work President Lyndon B. Johnson did in order to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to pass and become a law in America.

". . . details the history of [Brown v. Board of Education] as well as its impact on the quickly changing America of the 1950s and 1960s"--OCLC.

Looks at the civil rights movement, focusing on the March on Washington, discussing its impact on the nation's history.