"Segregation and racial discrimination were facts of life for most blacks in America until the birth of civil rights movements in the 1950s and 1960s. At the time, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other brave men and women came forward as leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Here is a vivid account of freedom narches, boycotts, and other nonviolent protest tactics that impleeled local, state and federal governments to change their laws."