african american civil rights workers

Chronicles the life of W. E. B. Du Bois, describing his accomplishments as an author, scholar, and civil rights leader, along with his relationships with Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others. Includes a time line.

Examines the life of W.E.B. Du Bois, discussing his fight for racial equality, literary works, and influence on the African-American community.

Examines the lives of the African-Americans activists who worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s--Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, John Lewis, Marion Barry, Bob Zellner, and Diane Nash--and discusses the impact their actions had on the civil rights movement, politics, and twentieth-century society.

Contains more than 240 alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on figures, events, influences, and other topics in the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Shares over four hundred stories of key people and events in the centuries-long history of the struggle by African-Americans for civil rights.

Presents a comprehensive study of the 1961 Freedom Rides from Washington DC to the deep south that challenged the segregated transit laws, and describes the brutal confrontation between the riders and the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama and Mississippi.

Tells the life story of American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, describing his pacifism, his work with such figures as Martin Luther King, Jr., and A. Philip Randolph, and the challenges he faced within the activist community because of his homosexuality.

Presents a collection of stories and documents about the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, and describes the history of violence and abuse, other civil rights leaders involved, and firsthand accounts from segregationists.

Presents photographs and analysis of the civil rights movement led by Ralph David Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr., that are intended to convey the work they went through to organize marches and events.

Presents volume four of an eight-volume series on political assassinations, and chronicles the life of civil rights activist, Medgar Evers, the events that led to his murder in 1963 by White Supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, and the trial and conviction that took place thirty years later.