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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... equality , nothing less . If equality , political , eco- nomic , and social , is the boon of other men in this great country of ours , then equality , political , economic , and social , is what we demand ... " The Supreme Court did not ...
... equality , nothing less . If equality , political , eco- nomic , and social , is the boon of other men in this great country of ours , then equality , political , economic , and social , is what we demand ... " The Supreme Court did not ...
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... equality . In the spring of 1942 , racial tensions exploded in Detroit , a center for war industries where blacks and whites contended for jobs and housing . The riot ended only when 2,500 federal troops were sent in . Of the thirty ...
... equality . In the spring of 1942 , racial tensions exploded in Detroit , a center for war industries where blacks and whites contended for jobs and housing . The riot ended only when 2,500 federal troops were sent in . Of the thirty ...
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... equality of treatment and oppor- tunity in the armed forces . 1949 William H. Hastie is nominated for U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals . William L. Dawson chosen chairman of House Expenditures Committee , is first black to head standing ...
... equality of treatment and oppor- tunity in the armed forces . 1949 William H. Hastie is nominated for U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals . William L. Dawson chosen chairman of House Expenditures Committee , is first black to head standing ...
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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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