Provides alphabetically arranged entries on people and events important to the civil rights struggle, including organizations, books, concepts, court cases, and

Race riots are the most glaring and contemporary displays of the racial strife running through America's history. Mostly urban, mostly outside the South, and mo

Provides alphabetically arranged entries on people and events important to the civil rights struggle, including organizations, books, concepts, court cases, and

Provides over 800 entries on people and events important to the civil rights struggle, and cites court cases which show a progression of civil rights.

Jim Crow refers to a set of laws in many states, predominantly in the South, after the end of Reconstruction in 1877 that severely restricted the rights and pri