What is the civil rights movement?

Title
What is the civil rights movement?

Personal Author EPSB
Sherri L., Smith

Summary
"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".

Year Published
2020

Series
What is?

Physical Description
108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Note
"An official WHO HQ book" -- Cover.

Subject
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
 
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.

Genre
Instructional and educational works.

Added Author
Foley, Tim, 1962-

Summary
"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".

ISBN
9781524792312
 
9781524792305

Publisher
New York : Penguin Workshop, [2020]


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
George P. Nicholson323.1196 SMIBook31004000303185Non-Fiction