Age
10-12
Grade
5-7
Michael Anderson
The Civil Rights Movement
Paperback
(Heinemann Sept. 26, 2003)
What is the Civil Rights Movement? -- A Movement many years in the making -- Early steps -- Dashed hopes -- The first victories -- Resistance to the Brown ruling -- Bus boycott in Montgomery -- Martin Luther King Jr. and nonviolent protest -- Central High School in Little Rock -- Sit-ins and SNCC -- Freedom rides -- Birmingham -- Political responses to the Movement -- March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act -- Struggle in Mississippi -- Selma and the Voting Rights Act -- Civil rights and the arts -- A new direction -- Other civil rights struggles -- The Movement continues -- Timeline.
- Series
- 20th Century Perspectives
- ISBN
- 1403441790 / 9781403441799
- Pages
- 48
- Weight
- 5.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 0.2
in.