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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... thousands had begun to slip away from bondage and flee toward the Union armies . Lincoln opened the military to ... thousand came from the seceded states , 40,000 from the border states , and 52,000 from the free states . A quarter of a ...
... thousands had begun to slip away from bondage and flee toward the Union armies . Lincoln opened the military to ... thousand came from the seceded states , 40,000 from the border states , and 52,000 from the free states . A quarter of a ...
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... thousands of lynchers and watchers , only 49 were indicted and only 4 sentenced to jail up to 1930. The courts , police , and even the local clergy adopted an atti- tude of silent acquiescence . The records show that 5,165 Americans ...
... thousands of lynchers and watchers , only 49 were indicted and only 4 sentenced to jail up to 1930. The courts , police , and even the local clergy adopted an atti- tude of silent acquiescence . The records show that 5,165 Americans ...
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... thousands of communities , local and county government was controlled by segregation- ist officials who put up every possible roadblock to the ballot box . A literacy test designed to be very difficult was one of the main tools used ...
... thousands of communities , local and county government was controlled by segregation- ist officials who put up every possible roadblock to the ballot box . A literacy test designed to be very difficult was one of the main tools used ...
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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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