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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... King became the first passenger to ride an integrated city bus in Montgomery , Alabama . Soon after , early in 1957 , in the wake of the successful bus boycott , King and other activist ministers founded the Southern Christian Leader ...
... King became the first passenger to ride an integrated city bus in Montgomery , Alabama . Soon after , early in 1957 , in the wake of the successful bus boycott , King and other activist ministers founded the Southern Christian Leader ...
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... King to come to Birmingham in the spring of 1963 , he came . Within a week after King led the first demonstra- tions for voting rights in the streets , he knew this would be the hardest time the movement had ever faced , Birming- ham ...
... King to come to Birmingham in the spring of 1963 , he came . Within a week after King led the first demonstra- tions for voting rights in the streets , he knew this would be the hardest time the movement had ever faced , Birming- ham ...
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... King was staying was bombed by white extremists , and so was the home nearby of King's brother , the Rev. A. D. King . A dynamite blast killed four young black girls in a Baptist Sunday school . Police killed another child on the street ...
... King was staying was bombed by white extremists , and so was the home nearby of King's brother , the Rev. A. D. King . A dynamite blast killed four young black girls in a Baptist Sunday school . Police killed another child on the street ...
Inhalt
We Dont Serve Negroes | 1 |
They Came in Chains | 2 |
All Men Are Created Equal | 3 |
Urheberrecht | |
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