African American civil rights movement
World Book, Inc2011
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A history of the African American civil rights movement, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries
Main title:
African American civil rights movement / by World Book, Inc
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Imprint:
Chicago World Book c2011.
Collation:
64 p. illustrations (some colour) map
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Audience:
Secondary
Contents:
What are civil rights? -- Slavery -- Civil war and emancipation -- Reconstruction -- Trouble in the South -- The era of Jim Crow -- Two African American leaders -- Conflict and action -- The campaign against lynching -- The great migration -- Black labor and the New Deal -- World War II and its aftermath -- The struggle for education -- The Montgomery bus boycott -- A new leader emerges -- The tactics of nonviolence -- Birmingham, 1963 -- The victims -- The march on Washington -- The Johnson presidency -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- The Voting Rights Act -- New voices -- Black ghettos and urban riots -- The death of King -- Affirmative action -- New black leaders -- President Barack Obama -- Timeline -- Sources -- Additonal resources
ISBN:
9780716615002 (hbk)
Dewey class:
323.1196 AFR
Local class:
323.1196
Language:
English
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BRN:
47073
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