Lives In Crisis: The Civil Rights Movement

Segregation and discrimination were facts of life for most blacks living in the southern states of the USA, until the 1960s. However, from the mid-1950s, a civil rights movement developed that challenged this inequality, using boycotts, marches and other forms of non-violent resistance to persuade the government to change the laws.

Thousands of ordinary men and women became involved in the mass movement, representing not just the hopes and dreams of a race, but the principles of equality on which American democracy had been built. This book traces their actions, experiences and achievements.