Civil Rights Movement

Contents include: What is the Civil Rights Movement? -- A Movement many years in the making -- Early steps -- Dashed hopes -- The first victories -- Resistance to the Brown ruling -- Bus boycott in Montgomery -- Martin Luther King Jr. and nonviolent protest -- Central High School in Little Rock -- Sit-ins and SNCC -- Freedom rides -- Birmingham -- Political responses to the Movement -- March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act -- Struggle in Mississippi -- Selma and the Voting Rights Act -- Civil rights and the arts -- A new direction -- Other civil rights struggles -- The Movement continues -- Timeline.Anderson, Michael is the author of 'Civil Rights Movement' with ISBN 9781403438058 and ISBN 1403438056.