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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... President Herbert Hoover , busi- ness will be better soon . He was wrong , unemployment piled higher and higher until fifteen million were out of work . People lost jobs , homes , hope . Breadlines and soup kitchens were everywhere . In ...
... President Herbert Hoover , busi- ness will be better soon . He was wrong , unemployment piled higher and higher until fifteen million were out of work . People lost jobs , homes , hope . Breadlines and soup kitchens were everywhere . In ...
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... President to say that Faubus was behind the mob violence and had helped organize it . As the situ- ation grew more violent , the mayor again wired the Pres- ident , begging for federal troops to take control “ in the interest of ...
... President to say that Faubus was behind the mob violence and had helped organize it . As the situ- ation grew more violent , the mayor again wired the Pres- ident , begging for federal troops to take control “ in the interest of ...
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... President was assassinated and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson replaced him . The new president , despite coming from Texas , a Southern state , fought for passage of what became the Civil Rights Law of 1964. This after a yearlong ...
... President was assassinated and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson replaced him . The new president , despite coming from Texas , a Southern state , fought for passage of what became the Civil Rights Law of 1964. This after a yearlong ...
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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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