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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... action campaigns to break Great Britain's hold on his peo- ple since the 1920s . He called for a boycott on foreign goods , a refusal to attend governmental schools , and a refusal to pay taxes . All these activites were to be carried ...
... action campaigns to break Great Britain's hold on his peo- ple since the 1920s . He called for a boycott on foreign goods , a refusal to attend governmental schools , and a refusal to pay taxes . All these activites were to be carried ...
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... action at that time . The NAACP usually relied on law suits and educational campaigns , not demonstrations . But the ground had been seeded by Ran- dolph's action . Soon after , a biracial group in Chicago began to study Gandhi's ...
... action at that time . The NAACP usually relied on law suits and educational campaigns , not demonstrations . But the ground had been seeded by Ran- dolph's action . Soon after , a biracial group in Chicago began to study Gandhi's ...
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... ACTION ? As the movement's tactics developed , some peo- ple were at first confused about the principle of nonviolence . They didn't see that the word " resistance " was coupled with it and that " direct action " was a form of ...
... ACTION ? As the movement's tactics developed , some peo- ple were at first confused about the principle of nonviolence . They didn't see that the word " resistance " was coupled with it and that " direct action " was a form of ...
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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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