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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... nonviolent action at that time . The NAACP usually relied on law suits and educational campaigns , not demonstrations . But the ground had been seeded by Ran- dolph's action . Soon after , a biracial group in Chicago began to study ...
... nonviolent action at that time . The NAACP usually relied on law suits and educational campaigns , not demonstrations . But the ground had been seeded by Ran- dolph's action . Soon after , a biracial group in Chicago began to study ...
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... nonviolent action . They were lessons that would prove to be decisive in years to come . NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE The tradition of nonviolence is an old one in the United States . Men and women have resisted the call to violent action in ...
... nonviolent action . They were lessons that would prove to be decisive in years to come . NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE The tradition of nonviolence is an old one in the United States . Men and women have resisted the call to violent action in ...
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... nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking . But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word " tension . " I have earnestly opposed violent tension , but there is a type of constructive , nonviolent tension which is necessary for ...
... nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking . But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word " tension . " I have earnestly opposed violent tension , but there is a type of constructive , nonviolent tension which is necessary for ...
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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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