What Is the Civil Rights Movement?, Sherri L. Smith
What Is the Civil Rights Movement?, Sherri L. Smith
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What Is the Civil Rights Movement?

Author: Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ

Series: What Was?

Narrator: David Sadzin

Unabridged: 1 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/29/2020


Synopsis

Relive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history.

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.

Author Sherri L. Smith brings to life momentous events through the words and stories of people who were on the frontlines of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

About The Author

Sherri L. Smith is a children's book author, and the author of Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by LeeTravelGoddess on June 08, 2023

More books about their legacy of hate!! It’s beyond me truly!......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on September 20, 2021

This one is a 2.5 for me. Although it's good to have a short book for young readers identifying some of the key moments in the civil rights movement, I wish there'd been more discussion of what was happening between the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the election of Barack Obama as......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on February 05, 2023

I'm really enjoying the Who Was/What Was? series. Yes, they're very simplistic and could probably go into more detail, especially in this one where there was a huge leap between Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination and Barack Obama's presidential inauguration, but these books are for very young r......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on December 11, 2020

As the series goes, this one is again as comprehensive as a middle grade in the "who was/who it, what was/what is" which needs to provide an overview of what can be a fairly involved person or event. From my reading, it seems like the major elements are covered including small biographies or major p......more

Goodreads review by Ayla on January 16, 2024

Is a small book packed with loads of information, again this is for home schooling...... I really like the history in this book they gave you song you could listen to and know what they were singing. I really did not know what they had to go through so I really gain a lot of information. They even w......more