Download or read book Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement written by Jill Karson and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology provides a biographical record of the men and women who made the civil rights movement of the 1960s possible. While the leaders profiled in this volume represent diverse backgrounds and ideas, each was selected because their vision and work profoundly shaped one of history's great episodes of social reform.