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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... mass migration from their homelands to a strange New World . It was the greatest migration in history . There have been many other mass movements of people from one place to another . But most of the time , those people wished to change ...
... mass migration from their homelands to a strange New World . It was the greatest migration in history . There have been many other mass movements of people from one place to another . But most of the time , those people wished to change ...
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... mass action was needed . In January 1941 A. Philip Randolph , head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters , proposed a march on Washington to demand that the government do something . FDR was alarmed at signs of mass protest in a ...
... mass action was needed . In January 1941 A. Philip Randolph , head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters , proposed a march on Washington to demand that the government do something . FDR was alarmed at signs of mass protest in a ...
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... mass meetings in the churches , singing " We Shall Overcome , " " Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ' Round , " and " This Little Light of Mine . " They went into jail , singing and praying . The police threatened them : " Cut out that ...
... mass meetings in the churches , singing " We Shall Overcome , " " Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ' Round , " and " This Little Light of Mine . " They went into jail , singing and praying . The police threatened them : " Cut out 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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