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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... asking to eat at a place they know damn well is for whites only . His face reddens . Should he pull out his gun ... asked Franklin McCain how he felt at the end of that historic day : If it's possible to know what it means to have ...
... asking to eat at a place they know damn well is for whites only . His face reddens . Should he pull out his gun ... asked Franklin McCain how he felt at the end of that historic day : If it's possible to know what it means to have ...
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... asked me if it occurred to me that I might be the test case the NAACP had been looking for . I did not think about ... asked her why she didn't stand up . She asked him , " Why do you all push us around ? " He said to her , " I don't ...
... asked me if it occurred to me that I might be the test case the NAACP had been looking for . I did not think about ... asked her why she didn't stand up . She asked him , " Why do you all push us around ? " He said to her , " I don't ...
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... asked King to come to Birmingham in the spring of 1963 , he came . Within a week after King led the first demonstra- tions for voting rights in the streets , he knew this would be the hardest time the movement had ever faced , Birming ...
... asked King to come to Birmingham in the spring of 1963 , he came . Within a week after King led the first demonstra- tions for voting rights in the streets , he knew this would be the hardest time the movement had ever faced , Birming ...
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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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