I did a blog post a while back about Charles Cobb's book on the history of the civil rights movement. It's out this month, and I've got a full review up at the Scene, which you can read here. On the Road to Freedom is conceived as a travel guide for people who want to visit historic sites, but it's also a very readable primer on desegregation, with lots of interviews and documents from the time, along with Cobb's account of events. He really fleshes out the standard narrative of the movement, and give a sense of how people challenged racism in their own communities. His book would be great for a bright teenager who wants something more than the usual MLK Day lesson on civil rights.
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