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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... Moses and Julian Bond , soon to be youth leaders of the movement , said that what they saw on the TV screen changed their lives . Liberal white students too joined with blacks to work for social change . In the first two weeks after ...
... Moses and Julian Bond , soon to be youth leaders of the movement , said that what they saw on the TV screen changed their lives . Liberal white students too joined with blacks to work for social change . In the first two weeks after ...
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... Moses was their leader . A Harvard - educated schoolteacher from Harlem , his hope was to create a model for community organization that could be followed in other places . Work- ing closely with local black leaders , he helped build ...
... Moses was their leader . A Harvard - educated schoolteacher from Harlem , his hope was to create a model for community organization that could be followed in other places . Work- ing closely with local black leaders , he helped build ...
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... Moses concluded that if even larger numbers of white college students from the North came in to help , it would protect the movement from white vio- lence . And if it did occur , the Northern press would pay attention to it , as it ...
... Moses concluded that if even larger numbers of white college students from the North came in to help , it would protect the movement from white vio- lence . And if it did occur , the Northern press would pay attention to it , as it ...
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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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