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Title:
The civil rights movement : an eyewitness history
Author:
Wexler, Sanford.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Facts on File, [1999]

©1999
Physical Description:
xi, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
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.
Language:
English
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.
ISBN:
9780816027484
Format :
Book