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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... move to the Jim Crow section of the bus in the rear so the man can sit . She does not move . " Are you going to stand up ? " the driver asks . " No , " she says . " Well , " he says , " I'm going to have you arrested . " " You do that ...
... move to the Jim Crow section of the bus in the rear so the man can sit . She does not move . " Are you going to stand up ? " the driver asks . " No , " she says . " Well , " he says , " I'm going to have you arrested . " " You do that ...
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... move . She was forty - two at the time , college - educated , a committed activist , and sec- retary of the local NAACP . A dozen years earlier , in 1943 , the very same bus driver had ordered her to move to the back , and when she ...
... move . She was forty - two at the time , college - educated , a committed activist , and sec- retary of the local NAACP . A dozen years earlier , in 1943 , the very same bus driver had ordered her to move to the back , and when she ...
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... move- ment were upset by the furious pressure of the black community to end segregation and injus- tice now . So many marches , sit - ins , Freedom Rides , demonstrations ! Go slow , some said , wait . Give the authorities time to ...
... move- ment were upset by the furious pressure of the black community to end segregation and injus- tice now . So many marches , sit - ins , Freedom Rides , demonstrations ! Go slow , some said , wait . Give the authorities time to ...
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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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