Presents an overview of the 1955 bus boycott and the protest of segregation and other racist policies in Montgomery, Alabama, and places it in the larger context of the civil rights movement of that era, describing activists Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and others. Includes glossary and time line.

Discusses defining moments in American history.

Describes how thousands of Cherokee were forced to travel hundreds of miles on the Trail of Tears and how about one-fourth of them died from the journey.

Describes the Lincoln-Douglas debates over slavery that led to Lincoln's election to the Presidency.