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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... women . When the Dutch began to colonize New Netherland in 1609 ( renamed New York when the British took con- trol ) , they too were handicapped by an acute shortage of labor . Soon slaves were brought to Manhattan Island to work on the ...
... women . When the Dutch began to colonize New Netherland in 1609 ( renamed New York when the British took con- trol ) , they too were handicapped by an acute shortage of labor . Soon slaves were brought to Manhattan Island to work on the ...
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... fifth of the population of the United States . Not women , who were about half the population . Not Indians , whose land the colonists had taken by force or fraud . And not the poor whites , who could not vote because 16 THERE COMES A TIME.
... fifth of the population of the United States . Not women , who were about half the population . Not Indians , whose land the colonists had taken by force or fraud . And not the poor whites , who could not vote because 16 THERE COMES A TIME.
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... women were pro- tected by laws that made employers pay married women's wages to them , instead of to their husbands . They encour- aged the expansion of business and industry and raised money for the great program of Reconstruction on ...
... women were pro- tected by laws that made employers pay married women's wages to them , instead of to their husbands . They encour- aged the expansion of business and industry and raised money for the great program of Reconstruction on ...
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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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