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4-6African-American History series.
These titles provide basic introductions to these concurrent and related movements, though both suffer from choppily written texts ("Martin Luther King Jr. disagreed. He thought peaceful protests were best"). The timeline goes to 1975 in Power and to 1968 in Civil Rights, which limits readers' ability to contextualize current events. Photos and sidebars supplement the information. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these African-American History titles: The Black Power Movement and The Civil Rights Movement.