This Issue:

Table of Contents

Cover Story

Cover Story - Spanish Version

Mini-Lesson

Comprehension Quiz

Teacher's Guide and Worksheets

An Era of Change

Here are some highlights of the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1965.

1954 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation by race in public schools is unconstitutional.

1955 Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger.

1957 The Little Rock Nine crisis becomes a symbol of the ongoing fight over school segregation.

1960 Four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, begin a sit-in at a lunch counter that will not serve blacks. Others join the daily sit-in. Six months later, the original four are served lunch there.

1961 Throughout the South, people test new laws that prohibit racial segregation on public buses and trains. The activists are called Freedom Riders.

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his moving "I Have a Dream" speech to about 200,000 people at the March on Washington, D.C.

1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law prohibits discrimination.

1965 Congress passes the Voting Rights Act, making it possible for more blacks to register to vote.

Next: Power-Puff Girl