Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahalia Jackson were able to use their powerful voices to share a dream and change history.

This final book in a triliogy about the African American experience is a tribute to the crusaders for equality and peace in America, a crusade that continues to this day.

The speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. that defined the American civil rights movement.

The son of a North Carolina sharecropper recalls the hard times faced by his family and other African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes that the civil rights movement helped bring about.

Story of 1963 Birmingham Children's March as witnessed by four young people who were at the center of it.

In the early 1960s, tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a voting rights march in January, 1965, and was attacked by a segregationist. In February, the shooting of an unarmed demonstrator by an Alabama state trooper inspired a march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery. The march got off to a horrific...

Pictures and easy-to-read text introduce the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A groundbreaking history of the antebellum movement for equal rights that reshaped the institutions of freedom after the Civil War. The half century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over freedom as well as slavery: what were the arrangements of free society, especially for African Americans? Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted black codes that discouraged the settlement and restricted the basic rights of free black people. But...