TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Sherri L.
AU  - Foley,Tim
TI  - What is the civil rights movement?
T2  - What is
SN  - 9781524792312
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Workshop
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 108); What is the civil rights movement? -- A troubled past -- A long walk to school -- The Montgomery bus boycott -- The lunch counter sit-ins -- Freedom riders -- The children's crusade -- The march on Washington -- Freedom summer -- Selma to Montgomery -- Changing times -- Timelines; Ages 8-12; Penguin Workshop
N2  - "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"--
ER  -