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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... to combat racism , the virus embedded deep in American society and in all its institutions , that was some- thing else . What to do about it was a question that was tearing at the vitals of the movement . By this time 125 WHERE NOW ?
... to combat racism , the virus embedded deep in American society and in all its institutions , that was some- thing else . What to do about it was a question that was tearing at the vitals of the movement . By this time 125 WHERE NOW ?
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... society that pro- duced great wealth for a small minority , while it left tens of millions in misery . The feeble response to the " Kerner Report " was proof to King and the SCLC that government would not move to solve a problem ...
... society that pro- duced great wealth for a small minority , while it left tens of millions in misery . The feeble response to the " Kerner Report " was proof to King and the SCLC that government would not move to solve a problem ...
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... he points out , is con- centrated among the best - off members of society . Govern- ment policies affecting economic life benefit these white I I elites while leaving ordinary people to fall farther behind . 132 THERE COMES A TIME.
... he points out , is con- centrated among the best - off members of society . Govern- ment policies affecting economic life benefit these white I I elites while leaving ordinary people to fall farther behind . 132 THERE COMES A TIME.
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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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