Relive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history.
Smith is a children\'s book author, and the author of Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? She currently lives in Los Angeles, California..
This book also features the fun black-and-white illustrations and engaging 16-page photo insert that readers have come love about the What Was? series! About author(s): Sherri L.
Smith brings to life momentous events through the words and stories of people who were on the frontlines of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Author Sherri L.
But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change.
They couldn\'t go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people.
Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later.
Relive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history
