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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... that they were the colonial elite , and their goal was not social revolution . The common people and their radical spokesmen - men such as Thomas Paine and John Woolman - took the phrase more 13 ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.
... that they were the colonial elite , and their goal was not social revolution . The common people and their radical spokesmen - men such as Thomas Paine and John Woolman - took the phrase more 13 ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.
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... John Brown and a small band of twenty - one men , including five blacks ( two of them runaway slaves ) , attempted to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry . His plan was to capture the arms and then liberate slaves everywhere by ...
... John Brown and a small band of twenty - one men , including five blacks ( two of them runaway slaves ) , attempted to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry . His plan was to capture the arms and then liberate slaves everywhere by ...
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... John Lewis , chairman of SNCC at the time , and later a congressman from Georgia , said that rioting on this scale " frightened me . Rioting is not a movement . It is not an act of civil disobedience . I think it is a mistake for people ...
... John Lewis , chairman of SNCC at the time , and later a congressman from Georgia , said that rioting on this scale " frightened me . Rioting is not a movement . It is not an act of civil disobedience . I think it is a mistake for people ...
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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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