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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... begin to arrive in the English colonies of North America until the last part of the seventeenth century . Then blacks began to pour into the Southern colonies . Climate and the soil's fertility had made possible large - scale commercial ...
... begin to arrive in the English colonies of North America until the last part of the seventeenth century . Then blacks began to pour into the Southern colonies . Climate and the soil's fertility had made possible large - scale commercial ...
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... begin a new life . But would they enjoy full citizenship and equality ? Did emancipation imply any civil rights for the former slaves ? Did freedom mean only the bare privilege of not being chained ? If so , then it was a bitter mockery ...
... begin a new life . But would they enjoy full citizenship and equality ? Did emancipation imply any civil rights for the former slaves ? Did freedom mean only the bare privilege of not being chained ? If so , then it was a bitter mockery ...
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... begin- ning in the struggle that had been going on since the first slave ships reached the shores of America . The nation's claim to be democratic , to assure all its citizens of the right to life , liberty , and the pursuit of ...
... begin- ning in the struggle that had been going on since the first slave ships reached the shores of America . The nation's claim to be democratic , to assure all its citizens of the right to life , liberty , and the pursuit 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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