Table of Contents
Prologue 6
Maps 10
Main Civil Rights Organizations 12
Main Legal Cases Of The Civil Rights Movement 13
Chapter 1 The Roots Of The Civil Rights Movement 14
Chapter 2 Jim Crow: Separate And Unequal 18
Chapter 3 Desegregating The Armed Forces 22
Chapter 4 Jackie Robinson Integrates Baseball 26
Chapter 5 The Civil Rights Movement Begins 30
Chapter 6 The Little Rock Nine 34
Chapter 7 Resistance In The South 38
Chapter 8 Claudette Colvin: A Teenager Ready To Fight 42
Chapter 9 Rosa Parks And The Montgomery Bus Boycott 46
Chapter 10 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50
Chapter 11 The Greensboro Four 54
Chapter 12 Ruby Bridges: A First Grader Makes History 58
Chapter 13 The Freedom Riders 62
Chapter 14 Focus On Birmingham 66
Chapter 15 Artists Of The Civil Rights Movement 70
Chapter 16 "I Have A Dream": The March On Washington 74
Chapter 17 The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing 78
Chapter 18 1964: The Mississippi Summer Project 82
Chapter 19 Legislating Civil Rights 86
Chapter 20 The Selma To Montgomery Marches 90
Chapter 21 Music Of The Civil Rights Movement 94
Chapter 22 The Voting Rights Act Of 1965 98
Chapter 23 The Black Power Movement 102
Chapter 24 Pan-Africanism 106
Chapter 25 Malcolm X 110
Chapter 26 Disinformation And Destruction 114
Chapter 27 Literary Figures Of The Civil Rights Movement 118
Chapter 28 Young, Gifted, And Black: Entertainers In The Civil Rights Movement 122
Chapter 29 Not Just Black And White 126
Chapter 30 How Far Have We Come? Civil Rights Today 130
Key Players 134
Civil Rights Timeline 136
Glossary 140
Find Out More 142
Index 143
About The Author 144
