Books in Gateway Civil Rights series

Recounts the life and activities of the woman who grew up poor in a small southern town, became a successful journalist, and then turned her energies to speaking and organizing for civil rights, focusing particularly on her campaign against the crime of lynching.

A biography of the civil rights activist who devoted her life to helping blacks register to vote and gain a national political voice.

Profiles Stokley Carmichael and discusses his leadership of the controversial Black Power group in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

A biography of the civil rights activist who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which acted as a labor union for Pullman car porters, and crusaded for equal rights for blacks in the armed forces, military industries, and in labor unions.

Chronicles the activities, commitments, and achievements of the founder and director of the Congress of Racial Equality, focusing on his role in organizing the 1961 Freedom Rides and introducing nonviolent protests against discrimination.

A biography of the escaped slave who became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century.

A biography of the civil rights activist who devoted her life to helping blacks register to vote and gain a national political voice.

Malcolm X was a leader of the Nation of Islam, a movement to unite black people throughout the world. He taught blacks to take pride in their race and to respect and help themselves.

Examines the life and accomplishments of the first Black judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court

Examines the life of the black scholar and leader, with an emphasis on his work for racial equality in the United States.

Twenty photographs accompany a portrait of the late Thurgood Marshall, who began as a well-known NAACP lawyer and who became the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

A biography of the Black Muslim who led a movement to unite black people all over the world.