Civil-Rights-Leaders

The Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History with 21 Activities

Time for Kids: Martin Luther King JR.

Freedom Walk - Mississippi or Bust

On April 23, on a highway near Attalla, Alabama, this lone crusader was shot dead.Moore had kept a journal that detailed his goal.A week later, a white mail carrier, had made his own assault a few months earlier.In 1963, the streams of religious revival, racial strife, and cold-war politics were feeding the swelling river of social unrest in America. Marshaling massive forces, civil rights leaders were primed for a widescale attack on injustice in the South.Though all shared a deep love of the South, their strong feelings about who was entitled to walk its highways were in deadly conflict. Four other attempts to complete the postmans quest were similarly stymied..Y

The Christian Right in the United States - Origin, Structure, and Political Activism

The subject is appealing for research for several reasons: firstly, it is a good example of how vivid and influential religion and religiously motivated political action still are, in spite of the Christian Rights performance so

Children of the Movement - The Sons and Daughters of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, and Others Reveal How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Transformed Their Lives

Included are such inspiring stories as the daughter of a famous martyr who unexpectedly meets her mothers killer.Profiling 24 of the triumphant civil rights movement and show the individual lives it changed in surprising ways.

Setting Global Standards - Guidelines for Creating Codes of Conduct in Multinational Corporations

Prakash Sethi, a preeminent business scholar and researcher on the activities of multinational corporations and global business issues, outlines a number of highly effective approaches by which corporate leaders can improve their credibility and ensure the protection of the human and civil rights of their workers across the globe. Order your copy today!. S.Learn how large corporations can make real improvements in their standard business practices without jeopardizing their competitiveness in the global marketplace

The Civil Rights Movement for Kids - A HIstory with 21 Activities

. In The Civil Rights Movement, like Barbara Johns, who held a rally in her elementary school gym that eventually led to the Brown vs. They will relive the fear and uncertainty of Freedom Summer and learn how northern white college students helped bring national attention to atrocities committed in the name of segregation, and theyll be inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X. Activities include: reenacting a lunch counter sit-in, organizing a choral group to sing the songs that motivated the foot soldiers in this war for rights. Board of Education Supreme Court school desegregation decision, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who was the first black student to desegregate elementary schools

The Selling of Civil Rights - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Use of Public Relations

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed in April 1960 to advance civil rights.. It specifically explores how SNCC workers used public relations to support and promote their platforms and to build a grassroots community movement and how the organization later rejected these strategies for a radical and isolated approach. This book provides a broad overview of these efforts from SNCCs birth in 1960 until the beginning of its demise in the late 1960s and examines the communication tools that SNCC leaders and members used to

Whose Black Politics? - Cases in Post-Racial Black Leadership

Martin Luther King Jr.

Including famous quotes from his many public appearances, and a timeline of important events, this book introduces Kings message of nonviolence in an engaging way. was one of the most influential leaders

Romance and Rights - The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954

The book focuses on the period beginning in 1967 when the Supreme Court overturned the last state antimiscegenation law (Loving v. His work has been published in American culture. Lubins study, however, suggests that we cannot fully understand contemporary

Macmillan Readers Gandhi Pre-intermediate Level

Robert F. Williams: Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination