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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... tion permitted slavery to remain legal . A compromise was reached between Northern and Southern delegates that allowed the South to count three - fifths of its slaves as a basis for representation in Congress . The African slave trade ...
... tion permitted slavery to remain legal . A compromise was reached between Northern and Southern delegates that allowed the South to count three - fifths of its slaves as a basis for representation in Congress . The African slave trade ...
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... tion . Work for blacks pushing a broom ? Cleaning a rest room ? Okay . But not as airplane mechanics or ship welders . What to do about it ? On the other side of the world , in India , Mohandas K. Gandhi had been leading direct action ...
... tion . Work for blacks pushing a broom ? Cleaning a rest room ? Okay . But not as airplane mechanics or ship welders . What to do about it ? On the other side of the world , in India , Mohandas K. Gandhi had been leading direct action ...
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... tion in America , only 5 percent of voting - age blacks had registered the lowest percentage in the nation . In a sym- bolic election in the fall of 1963 , 80,000 disfranchised blacks had voted on a Freedom Ballot for their candidates ...
... tion in America , only 5 percent of voting - age blacks had registered the lowest percentage in the nation . In a sym- bolic election in the fall of 1963 , 80,000 disfranchised blacks had voted on a Freedom Ballot for their candidates ...
Inhalt
We Dont Serve Negroes | 1 |
They Came in Chains | 2 |
All Men Are Created Equal | 3 |
Urheberrecht | |
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