Civilrightsmovement Stories

African-American Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on the bus to a white man led to her arrest and then a boycott of the buses. The Black Montgomery Bus Boycott la...

The life of Carolyn Bryant and what led up to her lies and the cause of Emmett Till's death.

The Time of Sparks, Set in a universe stuck in the early 50's and yet has modern technology. High school senior Owen Mitchell is over his divided mess of a town Damesbur...

Any shorts or snippets pertaining to my 1960s story concept set in a small farming town in Kansas called Gibson. This story is a continuation following the events of Th...

At the whim of a tragedy, two brothers confront issues that plague their relationship and their community. They debate the state of black voices being heard and whether...

Luna Thermopolis embarks on a journey to Washington D.C. to investigate the March on Washington, an action which her mother prohibits.

"James Reeb became nationally known as a rightful martyr to the Civil Rights Movement when he made the ultimate sacrifice answering Dr Martin Luther King Jr. 's cal...

It's the year 1968 in Chesterfield, Arizona. Chesterfield is a quiet, upscale suburb with a small population of 30 000. In Chesterfield, people know each other, but wher...

I experimented with a horrific scene and used a mundane description.

Franklin Press is an African American child growing up in the heart of the civil rights movement, 1963. Based upon the startlingly true events of The Children's March in...

This is the script for a project im doing in my ELA class for the civil rights movement. I'm doing it on Loving v Virginia and I have to do an art piece to go along with...

Set during the time of school integration in the U.S. after abolishing the 'separate but equal' laws, this story is of two young girls who befriend one another despite t...

1963. A year full of misery for the oppressed and segregated blacks. This short story follows one man as he takes part in one of the most symbolic events in all of Ameri...

The winters were cold, the war was cold, and the people were cold. But they kept each other warm. The story of Alabama-born baby boomers Luke Hemmings and Ethel Whitfiel...

Two teens struggling during the Civil Rights Movement days. They are assigned by an old man to kill certain members of the KKK. In doing this comes with questions, will...

Two men out of their era are brought together by fate, one a hotel worker and the other one a politician and activist. They’re destined to love, but their love brings d...

Magnolia Dewey is a 67 year old writer, artist and social justice activist known for her work done during the Civil Rights days. But once she was a little girl moving to...

All Ariel's life she was taught that blacks and whites are not the same that whites were better than blacks. Ariel never paid to much attention to the way things were be...

Delilah has a lot on her mind. No good drunk of a father still in the house and submissive mother in the hospital, her only oasis is her dance class at school. With he...

What is love? Does love only work when the same skin color loves another? Historical Fiction Novel about an aspiring white woman named Kathrine who seems to get herself...