Black civil rights in the USA
Rosanowski, John2000
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Covers the turbulent years from 1954 to 1970. Learn about Rosa Parks and her fateful bus ride; about the long journey of Martin Luther King; and how people responding in non-violent and militant ways to discrimination brought about social change
Main title:
Black civil rights in the USA / by John Rosanowski, Tony Murdoch and Pam O'Connell
Imprint:
Auckland Longman 2000
Collation:
102 p. illustrations maps
Audience:
Secondary
Contents:
Overview -- Introduction: Down slavery road: background to the 1950s -- Brown versus Board of Education, Topeka, 1954 -- The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 -- White backlash: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957 -- Sit-ins, 1960, and freedom rides, 1961 -- Women's involvement in the movement -- James Meredith and the University of Mississippi. 1962 -- The 1963 campaign in Birmingham -- White backlash, 1963 -- High points of the civil rights movement - 'Burn, baby, burn'. The Watts Riot of 1965 -- Mixed fortunes in the movement, 1965-66 -- Black Power: a change in attitude -- The Black Muslims: Spiritual militants -- A movement dividing -- Death of Martin Luther King Jr, 1968 -- Assessing the dream: Black America, 1970 -- Epilogue
ISBN:
0582718856 (pbk)
Dewey class:
323.1196 BLA
Local class:
323.1196
Language:
English
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BRN:
45955
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