We Shall Overcome
Subtitle: Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
By: by Fred Powledge; photographs by the author.
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Scribner; Maxwell Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York, NY; Toronto, ON; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780684193625
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; African Americans -- Civil rights; Civil rights workers; Civil rights movements; United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature; United States -- Race relations
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: Examines the system of segregation that existed in the United States until the mid-twentieth century and discusses the civil rights movement that changed this system.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Way of Life; title: Separate and Unequal; title: Marchin' Shoes; title: Power of Nonviolence; title: Freedom Summers; title: Selma and Beyond; title: Growing Up in Mississippi: Joyce Ladner; title: "Troublemakers" in the Delta: June Johnson; title: Getting Out the Vote in Mississippi: Leslie McLemore; title: Becoming an Activist: Charles Jones; title: Black and White Together: David Crosland, Val Coleman, Constance Curry; title: Captain of the Picket Signs: Robert Mants