civil rights movement

It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion, or worse, from the home they hold dear. But as Raymond continues to push alternatives for enhancing New Jessup's political power, Alice must find a way to balance her undying support for his underground work with her desire to protect New Jessup from the rising pressure of upheavals both in and out of town.

The author, distraught over the results of the 2016 presidential election, takes an illustrated look at lessons from the civil rights movement that modern-day activists can use to create positive change. Includes a list of suggested reading.

Examines the history of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Graphic novel representation of six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her integration as the first African-American child in an all-white New Orleans school.

"America is a nation founded on the idea that all men are created equal, but it took African Americans years of hard-fought struggles to even approach equality in jobs, education, and the right to vote. And in the twenty-first century, the struggle goes on. This book examines how and why social change occurs and the lasting influence of the Civil Rights Movement"--Provided by publisher.

A graphic novel account of some pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement.

Gail Lumet Buckley is the daughter of Lena Horne. Starting with her great-great-grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house slave who became a successful businessman in post-war Atlanta, she follows two branches of the family: one that stayed in the South and the other that settled in Brooklyn. From Atlanta during the Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, New York City during the Harlem Renaissance, to world wars and the civil rights movement, her family participated in the most crucial turning points in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Biography describing the events in Martin Luther King, Jr.s life.

Growing up in Louisiana in the late 1960s, where segregation and prejudice still thrive, two high school football players, one white, one black, become friends, but some changes are too difficult to accept.