American civil rights
Subtitle: biographies
By: Phillis Engelbert ; Betz Des Chenes, editor
Contributors: Des Chenes, Betz
Publisher: U·X·L
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780787631734
Subjects: Race relations; Civil rights; Ethnic relations; Minorities; Civil rights movements; History; Juvenile literature; Biography; Civil rights workers
Description: Biographies of major civil rights figures, including sidebars covering related events and issues.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: James G. Abourezk; title: The killing of Alex Odeh; title: Susan B. Anthony; title: Elizabeth Cady Stanton; title: Anna Mae Aquash; title: Ella Jo Baker; title: Bayard Rustin; title: César Chávez; title: Luis Valdez; title: Teatro Campesino; title: Septima P. Clark; title: Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez; title: Fannie Lou Hamer; title: Harry Hay; title: Myles Horton; title: Rosa Parks; title: Dolores Huerta; title: Jess De La Cruz; title: Elaine H. Kim; title: Martin Luther King Jr.; title: Yuri Kochiyama; title: John Robert Lewis; title: Malcolm X; title: Robert Parris Moses; title: Leonard Peltier; title: Hank Adams; title: Ed Roberts; title: Charlene Teters; title: John Trudell; title: Sojourner Truth; title: Harriet Tubman; title: Philip Vera Cruz.