The Civil Rights MovementMarshall Cavendish, 2005 - 135 páginas Presents the history of the civil rights movement in the United States, from Reconstruction to the late 1960s, through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, speeches, songs, and poems of the time. |
Contenido
The Roots of a Movement I | 1 |
Early Activists Take a Stand | 15 |
The Road to Change | 30 |
The Modern Movement Begins | 47 |
The Power of Peaceful Protest | 66 |
In the Face of Violence | 81 |
We Shall Overcome | 100 |
Legacy of a Movement | 119 |
Glossary | 128 |
Términos y frases comunes
African Americans Alabama Amendment arrested ballot Barnett began believe Birmingham black Americans bombing Booker boycott buses Central High Civil Rights Act civil rights activists civil rights movement colored Congress decision Democratic Party desegregation discrimination Emmett excerpt face Fannie Lou Hamer federal fight Following former slaves Freedom Summer Houston integrated jail Jim Crow Johnson justice leaders legislation Let freedom ring Lincoln Memorial Little Rock Nine live Luther King Jr lynching Malcolm Malcolm X March on Washington Martin Luther King Medgar ment Miss Anderson Mississippi Montgomery murder NAACP nation Negro nonviolence overcome someday Plessy police political President Kennedy primary sources race racial racism reported Rickey Robinson SCLC seat segregation separate but equal sit-ins South Southern speech struggle THINK Thurgood Marshall tion troopers Trotter U.S. Supreme Court violence Voting Rights Act W. E. B. Du Bois waiting Wilson York