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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... opened new facilities for the blind , the deaf , the dumb , the insane . To protect workers ' interests , they abolished all vagrancy laws , lowered tax rates on the tools and implements of mechanics and artisans . The rights of women ...
... opened new facilities for the blind , the deaf , the dumb , the insane . To protect workers ' interests , they abolished all vagrancy laws , lowered tax rates on the tools and implements of mechanics and artisans . The rights of women ...
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... opened to squatters by the government . Some went into the Native American territories . The largest number went to Kansas . But neither that state nor the federal govern- ment gave the new settlers any direct help . Southerners ...
... opened to squatters by the government . Some went into the Native American territories . The largest number went to Kansas . But neither that state nor the federal govern- ment gave the new settlers any direct help . Southerners ...
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... OPENED on September 4 , 1957 , 250 armed National Guardsmen surrounded the building . Why ? To ensure that the nine black boys and girls scheduled to enter the school would be safe ? No. Arkansas Governor Orval Orval Faubus had ...
... OPENED on September 4 , 1957 , 250 armed National Guardsmen surrounded the building . Why ? To ensure that the nine black boys and girls scheduled to enter the school would be safe ? No. Arkansas Governor Orval Orval Faubus had ...
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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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