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The Civil Rights Movement Through the Eyes of Lyndon B. Johnson

The Civil Rights Movement Through the Eyes of Lyndon B. Johnson is a non-fiction title in the Presidential Perspectives series which also includes The Civil War Through the Eyes of Abraham Lincoln, The Louisiana Purchase Through the Eyes of Thomas Jefferson, The New Nation Through the Eyes of George Washington, September 11 Through the Eyes of George W. Bush, World War I Through the Eyes of Woodrow Wilson, World War II Through the Eyes of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and The Cuban Missile Crisis Through the Eyes of John F. Kennedy. This series supports the Common Core State Standards for grades 3-6.

The Civil Rights Movement Through the Eyes of Lyndon B. Johnson is an historical look at the turbulent early half of the 1960s, and contains powerful black and white photos of  civil rights protests in Birmingham, the march on Selma,  the National Guard deployed in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral cortege in Atlanta. The text also contains a timeline, glossary, index, and a “Stop and Think” section that would be helpful in the classroom. Additionally, there is a reference section with both text and web sources for deeper study.