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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... forced to leave their homeland . From the fif- teenth century into the nineteenth century about twenty million people were captured , bought , or kidnapped in Africa by European , Arab , and American slave traders . The aim was profit ...
... forced to leave their homeland . From the fif- teenth century into the nineteenth century about twenty million people were captured , bought , or kidnapped in Africa by European , Arab , and American slave traders . The aim was profit ...
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... forced to put up with humiliating rules , such as that they board the bus in the back , sit in the back of the bus , and give up their seats to any whites who were standing . A boycott - refusal to do business with the bus company ...
... forced to put up with humiliating rules , such as that they board the bus in the back , sit in the back of the bus , and give up their seats to any whites who were standing . A boycott - refusal to do business with the bus company ...
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... forced run of some two miles out into the countryside , with his deputies using clubs and cattle prods to keep the youngsters moving . Several were beaten on the way . One nine - year - old was forced to run the distance barefoot . A ...
... forced run of some two miles out into the countryside , with his deputies using clubs and cattle prods to keep the youngsters moving . Several were beaten on the way . One nine - year - old was forced to run the distance barefoot . A ...
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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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