Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle

by Sara Bullard

Book Overview

Here is an illustrated history of the civil rights movement, written and designed for ages 10 to adult, that clearly and effectively brings the turbulent years of struggle to life, and gives a vivid and powerful experience of what it was like not so very long ago. Provides a brief overview of black history in the US, discussing the civil-rights movement chronologically through stories and photos.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195094506
• ISBN13: 9780195094503
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.9" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Free At Last

A truly painful story of the civil right movement. The stories of many so far, annonymous heroes and sheroes of the movement. The stories of the victims and their killers. Their amazingly unfair trials and finally the continuation of such in cases like in the four little girls killed in the Birmingham bombing of the 16th Baptist Church. Free At Last gives us a new view of the movement and of how its victims were not just "trouble makers" but innocent people that oppossed segregation non-violently. Also portraying the stories of the innocent ones that were tortured and killed simply for being black, or saying "Bye, baby" like 14-year-old Emmit Till.