The American civil rights movement
Subtitle: the African-American struggle for equality
By: Linda Jacobs Altman.
Series: Issues in focus; Issues in focus (Hillside, N.J.)
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements.; United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.; Race relations.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-125) and index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery and reconstruction; title: Beginnings of the movement; title: Challenging Jim Crow segregation; title: Montgomery, Alabama : the bus boycott; title: Pioneers in school integration; title: The beginnings of sixties activism; title: Activism in the deep South; title: "We shall overcome" : the movement expands; title: The turn to militancy.