In March 1965, Reverend James J. Reeb, a white Unitarian-Universalist minister and civil rights activist from Boston, was beaten to death by a white gang in Selma, Alabama, following a peaceful demonstration. Civil rights activists across the country mourned his death.

In the summer of 1967, the arrest and fatal beating of an African-American cab driver in Newark, New Jersey, led to a six-day riot in which 23 people were killed and more than 700 were injured. High unemployment rates among black youth, tense relations with the police, and gentrification (which many African Americans saw as an attempt at outright removal), all contributed to the riots.

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.

"A picture book biography about First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's early years and how the challenges she faced early in life helped her become a compassionate public servant and champion of human rights"--

This film provides a moving, in-depth biography of an organizer and journalist who,for a remarkable 60 years, participated in the most significant movements for racial and economic justice in the South. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. praised her steadfast activism in support of civil rights and civil liberties, but she was threatened, attacked, indicted, and labeled a "communist agitator" and "race traitor" by white supremacists. Her conservative...

When using a pull-lever vote-counting machine, voters flip switches to indicate their votes and pull a lever to record their choices. Although the machine does not create a paper record, it records the votes sequentially within the machine, allowing poll workers to verify votes in the event of a recount. While African Americans in northern states like Illinois were able to vote without significant harassment in the 1950s, many southern states set...

Publisher Annotation: A crucial addition to Civil Rights history, The Movement Made Us is the story of a nation reckoning with change and the hopes, struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of modern Black life. This is it: the extant chronicle of why we live, why we move, and for what we are made. 288pp., 75K

African-American athletes, including Bill Russell, Lou Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), and Jim Brown, appeared at a press conference in defense of Muhammad Ali's conscientious objection to the Vietnam War, which caused him to be stripped of his heavyweight title.

Nearly half a century since his murder, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was honored in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. PBS NewsHour correspondent Gwen Ifill examines the life and legacy of Evers - a World War II veteran and the NAACP's first field secretary in the South - with Jerry Mitchell of The Clarion-Ledger newspaper.

Civil rights activist and Congressman "John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, [was] 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...