Civil Rights Book Review

Civil Rights Book Review
The Civil Rights movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social fight by African Americans to gain full citizenship rights and racial equality. The civil rights movement was a challenge to segregation, the system of laws and customs separating African Americans and Caucasians used to control blacks after slavery was abolished in the 1860s. During the civil rights movement, in the 1960s individuals
(Many whites along with blacks) and civil rights organizations challenged segregation and discrimination with a variety of activities including protest marches, boycotts, and refusal to abide by segregation laws. There have been an enormous number of books published about the topic of the civil rights. One of the books written about the movement is called Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi written by John Dittmer. Bernadette Pruitt who writes for Peace and Change writes the first review and the second is by Bruc...