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Living through the Civil Rights Movement
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- Creator
- Charles George, book editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Detroit : Greenhaven Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 117 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0737729198, 9780737729191
- OCLC
- ocm70045776
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-113) and index.
- Responding to the school integration crisis in Little Rock / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- The nation faces a moral crisis in regard to race / John F. Kennedy -- The Civil Rights Movement threatens individual and states rights / George C. Wallace -- Blacks must have the right to vote / Lyndon B. Johnson -- "I have a dream" / Dr. Martin Luther King Jr -- Blacks must do whatever is necessary to secure their rights / Malcolm X -- Blacks must develop their own community / Stokely Carmichael -- Confronting racism at Little Rock's Central High School / Daisy Bates -- Black students take a stand : sit-ins and freedom rides / Diane Nash -- Attempting to vote in Mississippi / Fannie Lou Hamer -- Marching in Birmingham's Children's Crusade / Audrey Faye Hendricks, Judy Tarver, Bernita Roberson, and Larry Russell -- Bloody Sunday : the protest march that shocked the nation / John Lewis
Subjects
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
- African American civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
- Politicians -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
- Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
- Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.