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? |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 38
Seite 95
... vote ? Take Selma , Alabama . At that time , out of 15,000 blacks of voting age in the town and the surround- ing Dallas County , only a few hundred were registered . The most basic barrier to the ballot box was fear , fear pro- duced ...
... vote ? Take Selma , Alabama . At that time , out of 15,000 blacks of voting age in the town and the surround- ing Dallas County , only a few hundred were registered . The most basic barrier to the ballot box was fear , fear pro- duced ...
Seite 99
The Struggle for Civil Rights Milton Meltzer. ordering a poster with the words : VOTE TODAY FOR A BET- TER TOMORROW . During the voting drive in Georgia in 1962 , eight black churches housing voter registration meetings were bombed or ...
The Struggle for Civil Rights Milton Meltzer. ordering a poster with the words : VOTE TODAY FOR A BET- TER TOMORROW . During the voting drive in Georgia in 1962 , eight black churches housing voter registration meetings were bombed or ...
Seite 109
... voted on a Freedom Ballot for their candidates for governor and lieutenant governor . Eighty white stu- dents had come down to help carry out the Freedom Vote campaign . The media , intrigued by how this was 109 MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI.
... voted on a Freedom Ballot for their candidates for governor and lieutenant governor . Eighty white stu- dents had come down to help carry out the Freedom Vote campaign . The media , intrigued by how this was 109 MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI.
Inhalt
We Dont Serve Negroes | 1 |
They Came in Chains | 2 |
All Men Are Created Equal | 3 |
Urheberrecht | |
12 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
African Americans Alabama arrested ballot beaten became Birm Birmingham black and white Black Power black students bombed boycott buses called campaign Carolina Chicago church citizens civil rights movement colonies color Congress Constitution declared Democratic demonstrations desegregation diploma direct action discrimination elected enforce equal Faubus federal troops forced Freedom Riders Freedom Summer Fugitive Slave ghettoes Governor groups housing integration issue jail Jim Crow justice Kennedy killed leaders Little Rock live lunch counter lynched Martin Luther King ment MFDP million Mississippi Montgomery murders NAACP nation Negroes nonviolent resistance North officials organized percent plantation police political President protest race racial racism Ralph Abernathy Reconstruction right to vote Rights Act riots SCLC segregation Selma sharecropping sit-ins slave labor slavery SNCC South Southern struggle Supreme Court rules tion town U.S. Supreme Court violence voter registration voting rights York young black