Biographies of African American women civil rights leaders from Harriet Tubman to Sohourner Truth and Shirley Chisholm.

She put her life on the line and nearly lost it in the name of equality. Readers meet the outspoken civil rights activist whose speech appeared on national television despite President Johnson's attempts to block it, inspiring the Freedom Democrats as Fannie Lou Hamer took a stand for equal voting rights.

"Martin Luther King Jr. was an influential and inspiring leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The minister and social activist won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in 1968."--Provided by publisher.

"Born into slavery in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Yet she could see just how unjust the world she was living in was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist. Throughout her life, she fought against prejudice and for equality for African Americans. Ida B. Wells would go on to co-own a newspaper, write several books, help cofound the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

In 1990 Payne embarked on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X. All living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from...