Key events of the Civil Rights Movement will be brought to life in this exciting and insightful new series
Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement: 1955 Nel Yomtov
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ISBN-13: 978-1-338-76972-2 • Price: $11.99 • Pages: 96 • Format: Trade Paperback Trim size: 5-7/8’’ x 9’’ • Carton: 80 • Territory: WORLD • Stock Availability: US only The year 1955 saw a range of events that brought attention to the civil rights movement. In August, Emmett Till, a Black teenager, was brutally murdered in Mississippi. In December, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man while riding on a bus in Alabama. Parks’ brave action resulted in the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, an event that brought transformational change to the city. These events and more sparked a movement that in the following years would bring Black youth to the forefront of much needed reform in the nation. The years from 1955 to 1965 are at the heart of the civil rights movement—from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Voting Rights Act. The contributions of key activists, including Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Barbara Nash, and Malcolm X, are part of the narrative. Demonstrations of passive resistance and legal challenges were often met with bloodshed and violence against Black Americans fighting to end segregation and discrimination. Yet the courage of those yearning for equal opportunities under the law ultimately produced legislation affirming that every American should have the same constitutional rights, regardless of color, race, or gender.
Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement: 1957 Susan Taylor
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ISBN-13: 978-1-338-76975-3 • Price: $11.99 • Pages: 96 • Format: Trade Paperback Trim size: 5-7/8’’ x 9’’ • Carton: 80 • Territory: WORLD Stock Availability: US only 1957 was a year of new beginnings and hope for a growing movement. In January, prominent civil rights leaders attended a historic meeting in Georgia with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the helm. In September, as protests were heating up around the nation, a group of Black students, known as the Little Rock Nine, integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. At the same time, activists’ push for legislation resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Progress toward equality for Blacks was slow, but people’s commitment to the movement continued to deepen by the year as the prospect of change seemed possible.
Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement: 1960 Selene Castrovilla
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ISBN-13: 978-1-338-76978-4 • Price: $11.99 • Pages: 96 • Format: Trade Paperback Trim size: 5-7/8’’ x 9’’ • Carton: 80 • Territory: WORLD Stock Availability: US only The year 1960 was a turning point in the civil rights movement as young Black men and women became peaceful warriors for change. In February, four Black college students, known as the Greensboro Four, were refused service at a lunch counter in North Carolina. Their sit-in inspired similar protests across the country, demonstrating the ideals of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance. In November, as the year drew to a close, the nation’s eyes were on Ruby Bridges, a Black first grader who bravely integrated the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Desegregation would create a crisis of law and order throughout the South as the decade continued.
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