The Civil Rights Revolution

<p> From the Supreme Court's decision of <I>Brown v. Board of Education</I> in 1955 to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968--African American students lawyers ministers and communities conducted a successful nonviolent campaign against the system of American apartheid in eleven states.</p><p> This work is organized into four sections. The first describes apartheid in the U.S. before <I>Brown v. Board of Education.</I> The causes of the revolution--the enforcement of apartheid laws by state governments courts police and the KKK--are also analyzed. The second presents 54 confrontations in the struggle for Civil Rights--including court cases boycotts sit-ins marches demonstrations and the desegregation of cities and schools--from the Moton High student strike (in Farmville Virginia) in 1951 to 1969's hospital workers' strike in Charleston. The third is a series of 60 biographical profiles of leaders giving their educational and civil rights achievements. This section also includes a list of 40 historically significant activist organizations. The fourth section discusses six important Civil Rights laws and concludes with the general accomplishments of the struggle.</p>