TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Sherri L. AU - Foley,Tim TI - What is the Civil Rights Movement? T2 - What is SN - 9781524792305 U1 - 323.1196/073 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Workshop KW - Civil rights movements KW - United States KW - History KW - Juvenile literature KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights KW - Civil Rights KW - Civil rights demonstrations N1 - Lexile : 840L; "16 pages of photos inside!"--Cover; What is the civil rights movement? -- A troubled past -- The long walk to school -- Montgomery bus boycott -- The lunch counter sit-ins -- Freedom riders -- The children's crusade -- The march on Washington -- Freedom summer -- Selma to Montgomery -- Changing times -- Timelines N2 - "Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change"-- ER -