African-American women played a major role in bringing about social change during the civil rights movement. They participated in sit-ins and marches. They helped plan demonstrations and boycotts. And they were arrested for civil disobedience. Many women worked behind the scene, helping to organize protest efforts. Some women took on leadership roles. One was NAACP activist Rosa Parks, who is best known for inspiring the Montgomery bus boycott. She worked alongside Ella Baker, who later helped organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). SNCC founding member Diane Nash directed sit-ins and Freedom Rides. Fannie Lou Hamer took on the political machine of Mississippi in a demand for black voter representation. These women and many others of the civil rights movement helped ensure that the United States government guaranteed equal rights for all Americans, black and white.

 

This book is part of a book series called Finding a Voice-Womens Fight For Equal .

This book has been graded for interest at 6+ years.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Start Publishing .

Judy L. Hasday, a native of Pennsylvania, received her B. A. in communications and her M. Ed. in instructional technologies from Temple University. She has written many books for young adults including an award-winning biography of James Earl Jones; a two-time New York Public Library ""Best for the Teen Age"" award-winning book on the Holocaust; and Extraordinary Women Athletes, a 2001 CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. She lives in Philadelphia.