Discusses significant events that shaped the American civil rights movement, from the Civil War to the presidential election of Barack Obama.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
The first Civil Rights Act, 19 April 1866 -- Plessy vs Ferguson, 6 May 1896 -- The NAACP is formed, 1 June 1909 -- Segregation is over, 17 May 1954 -- Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott, 1 December 1955 -- Crisis at Little Rock, 4 September 1957 -- Peaceful sit-ins, 1 February 1960 -- The freedom rides, 4 May 1961 -- The Albany movement, 17 November 1961 -- The Birmingham campaign, 3 May 1963 -- The march on Washington, 28 August 1963 -- The freedom summer project, 21 June 1964 -- The Civil Rights Act, 2 July 1964 -- The death of Malcolm X, 21 February 1965 -- The march at Selma, 7 March 1965 -- The Voting Rights Act, 6 August 1965 -- Stokely Carmichael and Black power, 7 June 1966 -- The death of Martin Luther King, Jr., 4 April 1968 -- Jesse Jackson, 8 March 1988 -- The Los Angeles race riots, 29 April 1992 -- The election of Barack Obama, 20 January 2009 -- Key figures of civil rights.