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Title:

Living through the Civil Rights Movement / Charles George, book editor.

Publisher:

Greenhaven Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

117 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--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--History--History--20th century.--Sources.
Southern States--History--History--20th century--Sources.

Other Authors:

George, Charles, 1949-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-113) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Living through the Cold War

ISBN:

0737729198 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780737729191 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70045776

LCCN:

2006017184

Locations:

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