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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... later , the mob intercepted the Freedom Riders again , several miles out of town , and someone threw an incendiary bomb into the bus . The bus burst into flames , but the pas- sengers were able to get out and they were treated for smoke ...
... later , the mob intercepted the Freedom Riders again , several miles out of town , and someone threw an incendiary bomb into the bus . The bus burst into flames , but the pas- sengers were able to get out and they were treated for smoke ...
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... later , whites were officially expelled from SNCC . The black - white coalitions of the 1960s were falling apart . Black - white unity had helped the movement to get closer to its goal of securing voting rights . But some won- dered if ...
... later , whites were officially expelled from SNCC . The black - white coalitions of the 1960s were falling apart . Black - white unity had helped the movement to get closer to its goal of securing voting rights . But some won- dered if ...
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... later , King arrived in Selma , Alabama , to take part in the ongoing voter registration drive that SNCC had begun a year before . The same ugly pattern of denial of voting rights flourished in Selma as it had in Albany , Birmingham ...
... later , King arrived in Selma , Alabama , to take part in the ongoing voter registration drive that SNCC had begun a year before . The same ugly pattern of denial of voting rights flourished in Selma as it had in Albany , Birmingham ...
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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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