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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... SNCC workers had been building a base in the town of McComb . Robert 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 ...
... SNCC workers had been building a base in the town of McComb . Robert 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 ...
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... SNCC the kind of publicity its earlier efforts had not received . Robert 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 ...
... SNCC the kind of publicity its earlier efforts had not received . Robert 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 ...
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... SNCC met to assess the results , many blacks argued it was time for SNCC to go it alone . They believed " if we are to proceed towards true liberation , we must cut ourselves off from white people . " About a year later , whites were ...
... SNCC met to assess the results , many blacks argued it was time for SNCC to go it alone . They believed " if we are to proceed towards true liberation , we must cut ourselves off from white people . " About a year later , whites were ...
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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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