The Civil Rights Movement
By: Colin Hynson
Series: Timelines; Timelines
Publisher: Franklin Watts; Franklin Watts Ltd
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780749695347
Subjects: Race relations; Juvenile literature; Civil rights; African Americans; Civil rights movements; History
Description: Discusses significant events that shaped the American civil rights movement, from the Civil War to the presidential election of Barack Obama. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.
Table of contents: title: First Civil Rights Act; title: 19 April 1866; title: Plessy vs Ferguson; title: 6 May 1896; title: NAACP is formed; title: 1 June 1909; title: Segregation is over; title: 17 May 1954; title: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott; title: 1 December 1955; title: Crisis at Little Rock; title: 4 September 1957; title: Peaceful sit-ins; title: 1 February 1960; title: Freedom rides; title: 4 May 1961; title: Albany movement; title: 17 November 1961; title: Birmingham campaign; title: 3 May 1963; title: March on Washington; title: 28 August 1963; title: Freedom summer project; title: 21 June 1964; title: Civil Rights Act; title: 2 July 1964; title: Death of Malcolm X; title: 21 February 1965; title: March at Selma; title: 7 March 1965; title: Voting Rights Act; title: 6 August 1965; title: Stokey Carmichael and Black power; title: 7 June 1966; title: Death of Martin Luther King, Jr; title: 4 April 1968; title: Jesse Jackson; title: 8 March 1988; title: Los Angeles race riots; title: 29 April 1992; title: Election of Barack Obama; title: 20 January 2009; title: Key figures of civil rights.