This moving memoir-in-verse tells about what it means to be an everyday activist and foot solider for racial justice, as Kathlyn recounts how she went from attending protests as a teenager to fighting as an adult for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday to become a national holiday.

Presents a picture book biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, youngest of twenty children born to African American sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, who grew up to become a hero of the civil rights movement.

"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson...

"While the world may know the major names of the Civil Rights movement, there are countless lesser-known heroes fighting the good fight to advance equal justice for all, heeding the call when no one else was listening, often risking their lives and livelihoods in the process. This book shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things--like Pauli Murray, whose early work informed Thurgood Marshall's legal argument for Brown v. Board...

Presents the life of nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks who became the youngest known child to be arrested for picketing against Birmingham segregation practices in 1963.

Presents a graphic novel featuring the true story of Congressman John Lewis, who was a founder of the Nashville Student Movement and participated in the 1960s with the march on Washington in the civil rights movement.

In March 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a peaceful march from the town of Selma, Alabama, to the state capital, Montgomery, to protest racial discrimination in the South. Before starting the march, the group of nearly 2,000 protestors knelt in prayer, as an assembly of police looked on.

In northern cities such as Detroit and New York, many African Americans lived in ghettoes. Racial tensions boiled over in the form of violence and rioting. Dramatic media depictions of ghetto riots were a significant cause of white backlash and "white flight" from urban areas into the suburbs.

The first sit-in of the Civil Rights movement happened when four African-American college students sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960. The Greensboro sit-in sparked a wave of similar protests throughout the South, as well as "sympathy sit-ins" by college students in the North.

Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also includes interviews with political leaders, colleagues, and...