Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

A dream of freedom :

McWhorter, Diane.

A dream of freedom : - New York : Scholastic, 12/10/2009 - 160 p. : ill. ; 25 x 28 cm.

In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, the author focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown v. the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Beginning with an overview of the movement since the end of the Civil War, McWhorter also discusses such events as the 1956 MTGS bus boycott, the 1961 Freedom

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African Americans
Civil rights movements