The 1950s and 60s were a tumultuous time for African Americans as they fought for equality. Sit-ins, a peaceful tactic that displayed patience and determination, were met with incredible hostility. This book takes an unflinching look at the incredible struggles and successes of those who fought these battles to secure their own civil rights.

The story of best friends who set out on a dangerous, but comedic journey that challenges the restrictions of a Jim Crow South to fulfill their dreams.

Without question, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the face of the civil rights revolution that reshaped the social and political landscape of the United States. Although many biographers and historians have examined Dr. King's activism, few have recognized the pivotal role that the people of Montgomery, Alabama, played in preparing him for leadership. King arrived in Montgomery as a virtually unknown doctoral student, but his activities there - from...

The heroism of those involved in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott is presented here in poignant and thorough detail. The untold stories of those, both black and white, whose lives were forever changed by the boycott are shared, along with a chilling glimpse into the world of the white council members who tried to stop them. In the end, the boycott brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to prominence and improved the lives of all black Americans. Based...

This title traces continuing racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom for African American's in America. It tells how despite two major efforts to reconstruct race relations, injustices remain.

Determined to stand up for their rights, eleven-year-old Rufus, a Black boy, and his friends participate in the 1963 civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama.

Recounts how the black community of Montgomery, Alabama organized and participated in the 1955 bus boycott which ended segregation on public buses.

"Adolph L. Reed Jr.-- New Orleanian, political scientist, and, according to Cornel West, 'the greatest democratic theorist of his generation'-- takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South"--

Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.