What is the civil rights movement?
"Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refus...
| Main Author: | Smith, Sherri L. (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Foley, Tim, 1962- (Illustrator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Workshop,
[2020]
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| Series: |
What is--? (Penguin Workshop (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- What is the civil rights movement?
- A troubled past
- The long walk to school
- The Montgomery bus boycott
- The lunch counter sit-ins
- Freedom riders
- The children's crusade
- The march on Washington
- Freedom summer
- Selma to Montgomery
- Changing times
- Timelines.