Library > History & Government > United States > Civil Rights

Free at Last: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States

2001
Did you know that in the 1950's Blacks weren't allowed to eat in the same restaurants as Whites, weren't allowed to drink out of the same drinking fountains as Whites, and often weren't allowed to vote? Although slaves were freed at the end of the Civil War, they didn't get treated the same as Whites. Visit Free at Last: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States to learn about how Blacks fought to be treated as equals. Come to our website, it's a lot of fun, to learn about Civil Rights, and how equality was won.