If you lived at the time of Martin Luther King
Publication Information
New York : Scholastic, 1994 (2006 printing)
Physical Description
80 p. : col. ill., music ; 19 x 23 cm.
Notes
Includes text and score for "We Shall Overcome" by Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan and Pete Seeger.
Contents
- What was segregation?
- Did black and white children go to different schools?
- Did black and white children play together?
- What else was segregated?
- What did the government say about segregation?
- What happened in 1954?
- What did segregationists think about the Supreme Court decision?
- Was segregation the same in the north and the south?
- When did the civil rights movement begin?
- How did the Montgomery bus boycott start?
- How did people get to work or school?
- What did the city officials and white people of Montgomery do about the boycott?
- Does the protest like the bus boycott have a special name?
- What were the sit-ins?
- Were there other protests?
- What were the freedom rides?
- Why did some protesters believe it was important to go to jail?
- Were children involved in civil rights protests?
- Were there special protest songs?
- What did segregationists say about the civil rights movement?
- What was the march on Washington?
- What was "freedom summer"?
- Did everyone agree with Martin Luther King?
- Why did Martin Luther King think voting was so important?
- Did the U.S. government help the civil rights movement?
- Did Martin Luther King fight only for civil rights?
- Was the civil rights movement successful?
- Did the civil rights movement end when Martin Luther King was killed?
- What's left to be done?
- Important dates in the civil rights movement in the time of Martin Luther King
- Places to visit
- Song "We shall overcome".