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Author: Clayborne Carson
Publisher: Publications International, Limited
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the history of the civil rights movement in America from slavery to the present day and contains illustrated photographs, essays, and a timeline that documents such events as the Montgomery bus boycott, Freedom Rides, marches and sit-ins, and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act of the mid-1960s.
Author: Ben Green
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0684854538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe moving, true story of the still-unresolved murder of Harry T. Moore, killed in a Christmas Day bombing of his home in 1951, is an important rediscovery of a lost chapter in civil rights history. of photos.
Author: Harry Belafonte
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 1452170452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSixteen award-winning children's book artists illustrate the civil rights quotations that inspire them in this stirring and beautiful book. Featuring an introduction by Harry Belafonte, words from Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. among others, this inspirational collection sets a powerful example for generations of young leaders to come. It includes illustrations by Selina Alko, Alina Chau, Lisa Congdon, Emily Hughes, Molly Idle, Juana Medina, Innosanto Nagara, Christopher Silas Neal, John Parra, Brian Pinkney, Greg Pizzoli, Sean Qualls, Dan Santat, Shadra Strickland, Melissa Sweet, and Raúl the Third.
Author: Sheila Pree Bright
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1452170843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “powerful photo collection” documenting the Black Lives Matter movement and its parallels to the historic fight for civil rights (Publishers Weekly). The fight for equality continues, from 1960 to now. Combining portraits of past and present social justice activists with documentary images from recent protests throughout the United States, #1960Now sheds light on the parallels between the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter movement of today. Shelia Pree Bright’s striking black-and-white photographs capture the courage and conviction of ‘60s leaders and a new generation of activists, offering a powerful reminder that the fight for justice is far from over. #1960Now represents an important new contribution to American protest photography. “Visually arresting . . . activism photography shot across the U.S., from Ferguson, Missouri, to Atlanta to Philadelphia.” —Essence “While millions of cellphone photos are generated each day—some forceful testaments to racial violence and injustice—few possess the grace and quiet lyricism of her images.” —The New York Times Lens blog
Author: Simeon Booker
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2013-04
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1617037893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unforgettable chronicle from a groundbreaking journalist who covered Emmett Till's murder, the Little Rock Nine, and ten US presidents
Author: David Aretha
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 076605859X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBombs. Clubs. Metal pipes. Severe beatings. Angry segregationists. This is what the Freedom Riders faced when they journeyed into the Deep South to integrate the interstate buses and terminals. Civil rights activists, black and white, understood the dangers of the Freedom Rides. They knew opposition would be fierce, but they did not care. It was worth the risk in the pursuit of African-American rights. Through captivating primary source photographs, author David Aretha examines this fight for equality in the Civil Rights Movement.
Author: David Aretha
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 0766058603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartin Luther King, Jr., called Birmingham, Alabama, the most segregated city in America. In 1963, he and other civil rights leaders believed it was time to change that. With marches and protests throughout the city, civil rights activists hoped the movement would draw national attention. Hundreds of young African Americans joined the cause, marching for equal rights. Angry segregationists reacted, violently. And it would play out in newspapers and on television screens across the country. Through dramatic primary source photographs, author David Aretha explores this crucial struggle of the Civil Rights Movement.
Author: David Aretha
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1464404194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people descended on Washington, D.C. They came by bus, car, and bicycle. Some even walked hundreds of miles to be there. On that day, the massive crowd gathered to march, protest, sing, and support the Civil Rights Movement and to demonstrate that the time had come to end segregation in the South. To a captivated audience, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke of his "dream," when African Americans would have equal rights. Through vivid primary source photographs, author David Aretha explores the "greatest demonstration for freedom" in American history.
Author: Herb Boyd
Publisher: Westside
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781450810302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the election of the first African American president, and with civil rights issues in the news almost every day, now is the time for this important and fascinating book. From the editors of the nationally acclaimed Civil Rights Chronicle comes Civil Rights Yesterday & Today—a vibrant book that relives the black experience from slavery to the civil rights movement to the era of Obama. In addition to celebrating the great gains of African Americans, the book explores such controversial topics as affirmative action, the health care gap, black nationalism, and education inequities. Powerful images from the 19th to 21st centuries capture all the drama of the African American struggle. Striking artifacts and callout quotations add to the appeal of this extraordinary, one-of-a-kind book.
Author: Townsend Davis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999-02-17
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 039324542X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Weary Feet, Rested Souls is a valuable and beautiful road map to a landscape we must not forget."—Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund Thirty years after the Civil Rights Movement transformed America, Weary Feet, Rested Souls brings the landscape of this compelling period of history back to life. Logging 30,000 miles of research and more than 100 hours of interviews with Civil Rights veterans, Townsend Davis has written both a history of the struggle and an indispensable traveler's guidebook to Civil Rights in the Deep South. Ranging from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s childhood neighborhood to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three Civil Rights workers were murdered, to Selma and Birmingham and scores of other sites, Weary Feet, Rested Souls is a uniquely inspiring and deeply commemorative guide to the Movement and its heroes.
