There Comes a Time: The Struggle for Civil Rights
Random 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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Yet , Jim Crow continued to exist , North and South . And despite FDR's order , racial discrimination in employment continued , for the FEPC orders were not enforced . In February 1942 all people of Japanese ancestry were taken from ...
Progress in gaining civil rights continued . By the early 1980s Little Rock had an African American mayor and city manager . The director of human resources for the city was black . Five blacks sat in the state legislature .
Protest continued , with people coming out of mass meetings in the churches , singing “ We Shall Overcome , ” “ Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ' Round , ” and “ This Little Light of Mine . ” They went into jail , singing and praying .
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LibraryThing ReviewNutzerbericht - kharding - LibraryThing
This book discusses the struggle for Civil Rights over a much longer time period than other books on this topic. Starting with a chapter titled "We Don't Serve Negroes" which addresses the beginning ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
THERE COMES A TIME: The Struggle for Civil RightsNutzerbericht - Kirkus
An accessible and vivid outline of the events that led to changes in civil rights in the US from 1940 through 1968. Starting with slavery, Meltzer (Ten Queens, 1998, etc.) traces the unjust attitudes ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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