There Comes a Time: The Struggle for Civil RightsRandom House, 2000 - 193 Seiten Historian, scholar, and award-winning author Milton Meltzer outlines the struggle of African Americans for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," starting with the landing of the first slave ships on colonial shores. How did over 300 years of slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow laws come to an end in the civil rights movement of the 1960s? What was achieved, and what are the problems still facing us today? |
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... African American history that culminated in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s and represented a striving for equal rights . ISBN 0-375-80414-5 ( pbk . ) 1. Afro - Americans Civil rights - History - 20th century — Juvenile ...
... African American history that culminated in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s and represented a striving for equal rights . ISBN 0-375-80414-5 ( pbk . ) 1. Afro - Americans Civil rights - History - 20th century — Juvenile ...
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... African Americans in their struggle to emancipate themselves . The abolitionists , rapidly growing in number now , had the double task of rescuing slaves , first from slavery , then from Northern captors . There were many attempts at ...
... African Americans in their struggle to emancipate themselves . The abolitionists , rapidly growing in number now , had the double task of rescuing slaves , first from slavery , then from Northern captors . There were many attempts at ...
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... African Americans frustrated by more than 300 years of injustice . The Declaration of Independence promised life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness , yet African Americans were still not allowed to vote , or even to sit and eat ...
... African Americans frustrated by more than 300 years of injustice . The Declaration of Independence promised life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness , yet African Americans were still not allowed to vote , or even to sit and eat ...
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We Dont Serve Negroes | 1 |
They Came in Chains | 2 |
All Men Are Created Equal | 3 |
Urheberrecht | |
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