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Halberstam, David.

The children / - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c1998. - 783 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [733]-736) and index.

Ralph Abernathy. -- Ella Baker. -- Wilson Baker. -- Marion Barry Jr. -- Charles Bevel. -- Douglass Bevel. -- James Bevel. -- Sherrilyn Bevel. -- Carrie Bolton. -- Julian Bond. -- Harvie Branscomb. -- Paul Brooks. -- Brown v. Board of Education. -- Catherine Burks. -- Angeline Butler. -- Will D. Campbell. -- Guy Carawan. -- Stokely Carmichael. -- James Chestnut. -- Mary Churchwell. -- Jim Clark. -- Eugene Connor. -- Curry Cooper. -- Boss Ed Crump. -- John Doar. -- Ivanhoe Donaldson. -- James Eastland. -- Bob Eddinger. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower. -- Medgar Evers. -- James Farmer. -- Karl Fleming. -- James Forman. -- Mohandas Gandhi. -- James Hare. -- Carroll Harvey. -- J. Edgar Hoover. -- Lyndon B. Johnson. -- Mary Elizabeth Hendren Johnson. -- Gloria Johnson-Powell. -- Mattie Barry Jones. -- John F. Kennedy. -- Robert F. Kennedy. -- Martin Luther King. -- Korean War. -- Ku Klux Klan. -- Bernard Lafayette. -- Dorothy Wood Lawson. -- James Morris Lawson Jr. -- John Lawson. -- John Lewis. -- Philane Cover Lawson. -- Z. Alexander Looby. -- Chuck McDew. -- Floyd Mann. -- Thurgood Marshall. -- Bob Moses. -- Curtis Murphy. George Murphy Jr. -- Lucille Murphy. -- Rayna Ristow Murphy. -- Diane Nash. -- Robert Nelson. -- John Nixon. -- Rosa Parks. -- John Patterson Jr. -- Rodney Powell. -- Raymon Powell. -- A. Philip Randolph. -- J.L. Ray. -- James Earl Ray. -- Jackie Robinson. -- Bayard Rustin. -- John Seigenthaler. -- William Tecumseh Sherman. -- Fred Shuttlesworth. -- John Sloan. -- Glenn Smiley. -- Kelly Miller Smith. -- Joseph Smitherman. -- James G. Stahlman. -- Hank Thomas. -- Mary Treadwell. -- Howard Thurman. -- Vietnam War. -- C.T. Vivian. -- Octavia Vivian. -- Wyatt Tee Walker. -- George Wallace. -- Ben West. -- Roy Wilkins. -- Hosea Williams. -- April Powell Willingham. -- Harris Wooford. -- Andy Young. -- Whitney Young. -- Bob Zellner. -- Jim Zwerg.

Tells the story of eight young people who, inspired by workshops on nonviolence, decided to become involved in the fight against segregation during the 1960s, beginning with staged sit-ins at Nashville lunch counters, and progressing to ever more dangerous actions on behalf of the civil rights movements.

ISBN: 0679415610 (hardcover) 9780679415619 (hardcover)

LCCN: 97019974

Nat. Bib. No.: B9849483

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--United States--20th century.
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
Burgerrechten.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Protestacties.
Negers.
Jongeren.
African Americans--Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Civil rights workers.
Race relations.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Race relations.
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biography.
History.

LC Class. No.: E185.61 / .H195 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 323.1/196073