School integration. De Jure vs. De Facto segregation ; Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ; Thurgood Marshall ; The Little Rock Nine ; The University of Alabama integration ; James Meredith & the integration of the University of Mississippi -- The early Civil Rights movement. The Montgomery bus boycott ; Rosa Parks ; The Freedom Riders ; Emmett Till & Medgar Evers -- Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. ; Martin Luther King Jr. (continued) ; The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ; Letter from Birmingham jail ; The march on Washington ; The Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- The latter Civil Rights movement. Freedom Summer ; SNCC ; Watts riot ; Malcolm X ; Black power ; The Black Panther Party -- Modern political figures. Shirley Chisholm ; Jesse Jackson ; Colin Powell ; Barack Obama -- Entertainment. Motown ; The Apollo Theater ; Roots ; Maya Angelou ; Michael Jackson ; Oprah Winfrey -- Sports. The Harlem Globetrotters ; Muhammad Ali ; Michael Jordan ; Notable tennis greats ; Tiger Woods -- Answer key

Seven units, each accompanied by student activities, focusing on the events and notable people in the history of African Americans in the United States in the second half of the 20th and the 21st centuries; includes answer key for student activities