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Author:

Wexler, Sanford.

Title:

The civil rights movement : an eyewitness history / Sanford Wexler ; introduction by Julian Bond.

Publisher:

Facts on File,

Copyright Date:

c1993

Description:

xi, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Civil rights--Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements--United States--Juvenile literature.
United States--Race relations--Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements--History--Sources.
African Americans--Civil rights.
Race relations--History--Sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-348) and index.

Contents:

Origins of the civil rights movement : 1865-1948 -- School desegregation and the Brown v. Board of Education decision : 1949-1954 -- Emmett Till case : 1955 -- Montgomery bus boycott : 1955-1957 -- Crisis at Central High : 1957-1959 -- Sit-ins and freedom rides : 1960-1961 -- Albany movement and James Meredith at Ole Miss : 1961-1962 -- Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Alabama : Spring 1963 -- March on Washington : 1963 -- Freedom summer : 1964 -- Selma and the Votings Rights Act : 1965 -- Legacy of the civil rights movement.

Summary:

Uses speeches, articles, and other writings of those involved to trace the history of the civil rights movement in the United States, primarily from 1954 to 1965.

Series:

The eyewitness history series

ISBN:

9780816027484 (acid-free paper)
081602748X (acid-free paper)

LCCN:

92028674

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USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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