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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... four young guys are not out to start a war . They sit there , and sit there , and sit there . They don't move . Serve us , is the message their bodies give off , or you'll have to drag us off our seats ... Four teenagers , looking for ...
... four young guys are not out to start a war . They sit there , and sit there , and sit there . They don't move . Serve us , is the message their bodies give off , or you'll have to drag us off our seats ... Four teenagers , looking for ...
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... four million ex - slaves equality before the law . And to strengthen that guarantee of civil rights , the Four- teenth Amendment was adopted in 1868. It declared that blacks were citizens of the United States and entitled to equal ...
... four million ex - slaves equality before the law . And to strengthen that guarantee of civil rights , the Four- teenth Amendment was adopted in 1868. It declared that blacks were citizens of the United States and entitled to equal ...
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... four people killed during those three days , twenty - four were black , seventeen of them shot by police . In the South too , blacks resisted racial injustice dur- ing the war years . In the steeltown of Fairfield , Alabama twelve ...
... four people killed during those three days , twenty - four were black , seventeen of them shot by police . In the South too , blacks resisted racial injustice dur- ing the war years . In the steeltown of Fairfield , Alabama twelve ...
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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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