In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began withParting the Waters,winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage.

"A book to be handed down-just like a family Bible-to be read by family member after family member, generation after generation."-Hattie Winston, Negro Ensemble Company. "Janus Adams dazzles us with her poetic and inspirational interpretation of a critical juncture in our nation2s history."-Sharon Robinson. Throughout the world, the twentieth-century quest for equal rights is filled with stories of courage, strength, and perseverance. Freedom Days celebrates these powerful moments in the recent past. Read as history or for daily empowerment, here is memorable writing about unforgettable heroes, overlooked milestones, and triumphs of the human spirit over racism and oppression. Janus Adams (New York, NY) earned the first graduate degree in Pan-African Studies, is the founder of Harambee, the first book club for African Americans, and has won an Emmy award as writer for "Black News." Among her many books is Glory Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American History.

With a far-ranging selection of striking images and a lively, cogent text, Steven Kasher captures the danger, drama, and bravery of the civil rights movement. After an introduction explaining the vital importance of photography to the movement, the book proceeds from the Montgomery bus boycott through the student, local, and national movements; the big marches in Washington and Selma; Freedom Summer; Malcolm X and Black Power; and the death of Martin Luther King. Each chapter begins with a fast-paced narrative of a crucial event in the movement, complemented by a portfolio of the most effective and evocative photographs of the subject. Ranging from the well known to the rare, these images were shot by photographers including Richard Avedon, Danny Lyon, Charles Moore, Gordon Parks, Dan Weiner, and over fifty others. Many of the pictures are accompanied by thought-provoking remembrances and analysis by various photographers and participants. A concise chronology of the major civil rights events of the period and useful suggestions for additional reading conclude this invaluable, inspiring volume.

Through the lives of Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, Bob Zellner, Julian Bond, Marion Barry, John Lewis, and their contemporaries,The Shadows of Youthprovides a carefully woven group biography of the activists who—under the banner of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—challenged the way Americans think about civil rights, politics, and moral obligation in an unjust democracy. A wealth of original sources and oral interviews allows the historian Andrew B. Lewis to recover the sweeping narrative of the civil rights movement, from its origins in the youth culture of the 1950s to the near present. nbsp; The teenagers who spontaneously launched sit-ins across the South in the summer of 1961 became the SNCC activists and veterans without whom the civil rights movement could not have succeeded.The Shadows of Youthreplaces a story centered on the achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. with one that unearths the cultural currents that turned a disparate group of young adults into, in Nash’s term, skilled freedom fighters. Their dedication to radical democratic possibility was transformative. In the trajectory of their lives, from teenager to adult, is visible the entire arc of the most decisive era of the American civil rights movement, andThe Shadows of Youthfor the first time establishes the centrality of their achievement in the movement’s accomplishments.