What is the civil rights movement?

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Label

What is the civil rights movement?

Statement of responsibility

by Sherri L. Smith ; illustrated by Tim Foley

Creator

• trueSmith, Sherri L

Contributor

• Foley, Tim, 1962-

Author

• trueSmith, Sherri L

Illustrator

• Foley, Tim, 1962-

Subject

• African Americans -- Civil rights | History -- Juvenile literature
• trueCivil Rights Movement
• trueCivil rights
• Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
• trueRace relations
• trueUnited States -- Race relations
• trueAfrican American history
• African Americans -- Civil rights | History

Genre

• Juvenile literature

Language

eng

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"--

Member of

• What is--? (Penguin Workshop (Firm))
• trueWhat was--?

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

323.1196/073

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Ages: 8-12

Intended audience source

Penguin Workshop

Literary form

non fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 3
• 4

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

What is?

Target audience

juvenile