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Author
Series
America in the King years volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.
In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In 1931, nine teenagers were arrested as they traveled on a train through Scottsboro, Alabama. The youngest was thirteen, and all had been hoping to find something better at the end of their journey. But they never arrived. Instead, two white women falsely accused them of rape. The effects were catastrophic for the young men, who came to be known as the Scottsboro Boys. Being accused of raping a white woman in the Jim Crow south almost certainly...
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Behind the Movement brings to life the events leading up to the historical Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. Rosa Parks, a seamstress who was also secretary for her NAACP chapter and a voter registration activist, refuses to relinquish her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955. Her arrest is the spark that brings together the African American community in Alabama.
