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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... armed forces were segregated at that time , and discrimination was common . So too in the war industries . Blacks had great trouble getting jobs . Federal officials spoke out against Jim Crow , but industry paid no atten- tion . Work ...
... armed forces were segregated at that time , and discrimination was common . So too in the war industries . Blacks had great trouble getting jobs . Federal officials spoke out against Jim Crow , but industry paid no atten- tion . Work ...
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... armed National Guardsmen surrounded the building . Why ? To ensure that the nine black boys and girls scheduled to enter the school would be safe ? No. Arkansas Governor Orval Orval Faubus had announced on TV that he was sending the ...
... armed National Guardsmen surrounded the building . Why ? To ensure that the nine black boys and girls scheduled to enter the school would be safe ? No. Arkansas Governor Orval Orval Faubus had announced on TV that he was sending the ...
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... armed and some on horse- back , attacked them with tear gas , clubs , whips , and elec- tric cattle prods . The screaming , bleeding marchers fled for their lives , the lawmen chasing them back into the city , I 1 I ! clubbing them as ...
... armed and some on horse- back , attacked them with tear gas , clubs , whips , and elec- tric cattle prods . The screaming , bleeding marchers fled for their lives , the lawmen chasing them back into the city , I 1 I ! clubbing them as ...
Inhalt
We Dont Serve Negroes | 1 |
They Came in Chains | 2 |
All Men Are Created Equal | 3 |
Urheberrecht | |
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