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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... legislation that has become law since 1865. To get back into the Union , Southern states had to ratify the amendments . Beginning in the fall of 1867 , the Southern states , under the eye of the military , held the constitutional con ...
... legislation that has become law since 1865. To get back into the Union , Southern states had to ratify the amendments . Beginning in the fall of 1867 , the Southern states , under the eye of the military , held the constitutional con ...
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... legislation , was silent . Unemployed blacks got lower relief benefits than whites . Some federal agencies dis- criminated against blacks in their hiring policies . The Social Security Act , adopted in 1935 , provided for unem- ployment ...
... legislation , was silent . Unemployed blacks got lower relief benefits than whites . Some federal agencies dis- criminated against blacks in their hiring policies . The Social Security Act , adopted in 1935 , provided for unem- ployment ...
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... legislation had ever done . Signed into law on August 6 , 1965 , the act led quickly to the elections of a number of black public offi- cials . Where in 1964 there had been only sixteen black state legislators in the South , by 1966 ...
... legislation had ever done . Signed into law on August 6 , 1965 , the act led quickly to the elections of a number of black public offi- cials . Where in 1964 there had been only sixteen black state legislators in the South , by 1966 ...
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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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