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Book

What is the civil rights movement?

Call Number

  • J 323.1196 SMIT (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW)

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Publication Information

New York : Penguin Workshop, [2020]

Physical Description

108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Audience

Ages: 8-12 Penguin Workshop.

Summary

"Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change"--

Notes

"An official WHO HQ book"--Cover.

"16 pages of photos inside!"--Cover.

Contents

  • What is the civil rights movement?
  • A troubled past
  • The long walk to school
  • The Montgomery bus boycott
  • The lunch counter sit-ins
  • Freedom riders
  • The children's crusade
  • The march on Washington
  • Freedom summer
  • Selma to Montgomery
  • Changing times
  • Timelines.

Subjects

Added Authors

Tim Foley