Traces the African-American struggle for equality from slavery to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and beyond, and includes a chronology, chapter notes, and a glossary.
Content Note
Slavery and Reconstruction -- Beginnings of the movement -- Challenging Jim Crow segregation -- Montgomery, Alabama : the bus boycott -- Pioneers in school integration -- The beginnings of sixties activism -- Activism in the deep South -- "We shall overcome" : the movement expands -- The turn to militance.