The day Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot
Subtitle: a photo history of the civil rights movement
By: by Jim Haskins
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780590436618
Subjects: Race relations; African Americans; Civil rights; Juvenile literature; Civil rights movements; History
Description: Presents the history of the civil rights movement through pictures, newspaper clippings, and text, from colonial times to 1991, framed within the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Uses drawings and photographs to trace the history of the Civil Rights movement from the American Revolution to the present.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 93) and index.
Table of contents: title: End of an era; title: Earliest fighters for freedom; title: Slave resistance in North America; title: Freedom for the colonies; title: African American church; title: Abolitionist movement; title: Underground Railroad; title: War between the States; title: Reconstruction; title: Jim Crow; title: Fight or leave; title: Blacks and the press; title: War and peace; title: Depression and the New Deal - World War II; title: "With all deliberate speed"; title: Nonviolent protest; title: Sitting and riding; title: Marching for freedom; title: Black Power; title: On from Selma; title: Blacks in office; title: Struggle goes on; title: Important dates in the fight for African American rights; title: For further reading.