From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Selma-Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people made up the American civil rights movement. This volume tells the story of those people.

Includes index. Timeline on end pages.

God bless the child : the story of school desegregation -- Standing for justice : Mississippi and the Till case -- We're not moving to the back, Mr. Blake : the Montgomery bus boycott -- Hall monitors from the 101st : the Little Rock story -- Down freedom's main line : the movement's next generation -- Freedom in the air : the lessons of Albany and Birmingham -- The March on Washington -- Mississippi : freedom has never been free -- Selma : the bridge to freedom.