The term civil rights took on a new meaning in the 1950s and 1960s when African Americans, primarily in the South, demanded enforcement of the citizenship rights they were granted a century earlier.
The Civil Rights Movement
Books from PSHS IMC
Freedom North by Peter Woodard; Jeanne F. Theoharis (Editor); Komozi Woodard (Editor); Matthew Countryman
Call Number: 323.1 FRE
ISBN: 0312294689
Publication Date: 2003-02-08
Freedom Riders by Raymond Arsenault
Call Number: 323.092 ARS
ISBN: 9780199754311
Publication Date: 2011-03-11
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present by Paul Finkelman (Editor)
Call Number: 973.04 ENC
ISBN: 9780195167795
Publication Date: 2009-02-02
5 vol. set
American Civil Rights - Almanac by Phillis Engelbert (Editor)