Notes

48 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. Table of contents: The first Civil Rights Act, 19 April 1866 -- Plessy vs Ferguson, 6 May 1896 -- The NAACP is formed, 1 June 1909 -- Segregation is over, 17 May 1954 -- Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott, 1 December 1955 -- Crisis at Little Rock, 4 September 1957 -- Peaceful sit-ins, 1 February 1960 -- The freedom rides, 4 May 1961 -- The Albany movement, 17 November 1961 -- The Birmingham campaign, 3 May 1963 -- The march on Washington, 28 August 1963 -- The freedom summer project, 21 June 1964 -- The Civil Rights Act, 2 July 1964 -- The death of Malcolm X, 21 February 1965 -- The march at Selma, 7 March 1965 -- The Voting Rights Act, 6 August 1965 -- Stokely Carmichael and Black power, 7 June 1966 -- The death of Martin Luther King, Jr., 4 April 1968 -- Jesse Jackson, 8 March 1988 -- The Los Angeles race riots, 29 April 1992 -- The election of Barack Obama, 20 January 2009 -- Key figures of civil rights.