Give students in-depth views of specific events and historic eras with lessons that reinforce nonfiction reading skills. Spotlight On America: African Americans features reading sections and quizzes, student activity pages, annotated bibliography, a glossary of terms, and reader's theater.

Topics include:

• African Americans in Early America
• Leaders Before the Civil War
• War, Reconstruction, and Segregation
• Leaders and Heroes
• The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1970
• Moments and Movers in the Civil Rights Movement