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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... lynching followed . As rights gained during Reconstruction were denied , blacks in the South who persisted in trying to vote were often beaten or killed . Small groups of white men hunted down and shot or hanged their African American ...
... lynching followed . As rights gained during Reconstruction were denied , blacks in the South who persisted in trying to vote were often beaten or killed . Small groups of white men hunted down and shot or hanged their African American ...
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... lynching a federal offense was introduced by George H. White of North Carolina . ( He was one of the six black congressmen to hold office briefly after Reconstruction ended . ) The year before , 87 blacks and 12 white men had been lynched ...
... lynching a federal offense was introduced by George H. White of North Carolina . ( He was one of the six black congressmen to hold office briefly after Reconstruction ended . ) The year before , 87 blacks and 12 white men had been lynched ...
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... lynched between 1882 and 1936 . What crime , if any , was committed by the victims of lynching ? Ida B. Wells , black editor and the courageous pioneer of the anti - lynch campaign , studied the reports . Statistically , she proved that ...
... lynched between 1882 and 1936 . What crime , if any , was committed by the victims of lynching ? Ida B. Wells , black editor and the courageous pioneer of the anti - lynch campaign , studied the reports . Statistically , she proved that ...
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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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