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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... believed they had a right to a piece of the land they had made prof- itable for whites with their own sweat and blood . But it never happened . In the 1860s , Congress gave away , through the Pacific Railway Acts , 100 million acres of ...
... believed they had a right to a piece of the land they had made prof- itable for whites with their own sweat and blood . But it never happened . In the 1860s , Congress gave away , through the Pacific Railway Acts , 100 million acres of ...
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... believed a policy of self - help and trade schools , as practiced in his own Tuskegee , would make blacks valuable to society and win its respect . Only then , he held , would the blessings of full citizenship be bestowed on them . His ...
... believed a policy of self - help and trade schools , as practiced in his own Tuskegee , would make blacks valuable to society and win its respect . Only then , he held , would the blessings of full citizenship be bestowed on them . His ...
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... textbooks in black schools were more decrepit and underfinanced than in white schools . Segregation in education , the justices believed , could only reinforce the feeling of inferiority already existing among 61 THE COURT'S BROWN DECISION.
... textbooks in black schools were more decrepit and underfinanced than in white schools . Segregation in education , the justices believed , could only reinforce the feeling of inferiority already existing among 61 THE COURT'S BROWN DECISION.
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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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