race relations

Examines one of the most controversial battles in the civil rights movement, highlighting personal stories of the students and civil rights leaders who helped bring the races together.

Presents hundreds of firsthand accounts of key events in the Civil Rights movement, covering a period that ranges from 1954 through 1965; and includes narrative introductions to each chapter, a chronology of events, a biographical dictionary, a bibliography, and photographs.

Traces the struggles of African Americans from the end of slavery through the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South, to the civil rights movement and legal equality.

Examines the importance of practicing tolerance for others, the causes and effects of prejudice and discrimination, and the problems that may occur when people are intolerant.

A brief introduction to the nine African-American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Discusses the history of segregation in the United States, explaining how the Freedom Rides played a part in the civil rights movement.

In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and African-American neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.

The biography of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman who by her refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus ignited a citywide bus boycott that sparked the entire civil rights movement.

Recounts the life of Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Describes the far-reaching repercussions of the events of March 7, 1965 when 525 men, women, and children in Alabama attempted to march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery in order to register to vote.