The Civil Rights Movement

By Michael Anderson

Book Overview

Contents include: What is the Civil Rights Movement? -- A Movement many years in the making -- Early steps -- Dashed hopes -- The first victories -- Resistance to the Brown ruling -- Bus boycott in Montgomery -- Martin Luther King Jr. and nonviolent protest -- Central High School in Little Rock -- Sit-ins and SNCC -- Freedom rides -- Birmingham -- Political responses to the Movement -- March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act -- Struggle in Mississippi -- Selma and the Voting Rights Act -- Civil rights and the arts -- A new direction -- Other civil rights struggles -- The Movement continues -- Timeline.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403438056
• ISBN13: 9781403438058
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7