What is the civil rights movement? / by Sherri L. Smith ; illustrated by Tim Foley.
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TextSeries: What is--? (Penguin Workshop (Firm))Publisher: New York : Penguin Workshop, [2020]Description: 108 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type: - text
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- 9781524792312
- 9781524792305
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Includes bibliographical references (page 108).
What is the civil rights movement? -- A troubled past -- A long walk to school -- The Montgomery bus boycott -- The lunch counter sit-ins -- Freedom riders -- The children's crusade -- The march on Washington -- Freedom summer -- Selma to Montgomery -- Changing times -- Timelines.
"Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change"--
Ages 8-12 Penguin Workshop.