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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... schools were deprived of the equal protection of the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment . " The court had ... schools were more decrepit and underfinanced than in white schools . Segregation in education , the justices believed ...
... schools were deprived of the equal protection of the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment . " The court had ... schools were more decrepit and underfinanced than in white schools . Segregation in education , the justices believed ...
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... school sys- tems . But many whites then sent their children to private segregated schools to avoid the law . And in the North , as time passed , more segregation developed in the schools than in the once solidly segregated South . The ...
... school sys- tems . But many whites then sent their children to private segregated schools to avoid the law . And in the North , as time passed , more segregation developed in the schools than in the once solidly segregated South . The ...
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... schools , or " freedom schools . " They used innovative methods to bring black children and often their parents too the kind of empowering knowledge their own schools never touched . Especially was this true of African American history ...
... schools , or " freedom schools . " They used innovative methods to bring black children and often their parents too the kind of empowering knowledge their own schools never touched . Especially was this true of African American history ...
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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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