| Description |
238 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Great speeches in history series |
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Great speeches in history series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index. |
| Contents |
Civil rights pioneers. What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- Equality through education and self-improvement / Booker T. Washington -- A demand for equal rights / W.E.B. Du Bois -- On being a black woman / Mary Church Terrell -- Goals of the civil rights. Racial separation / Malcolm X -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Segregation now, segregation forever / George Wallace -- Voting rights / Fannie Lou Hamer -- Black pride / James Farmer -- A fully integrated society / Bayard Rustin -- Equal economic opportunity / Whitney M. Young Jr. -- Strategies and tactics. A call for mass action / A. Phillip Randolph -- Legal strategies / Thurgood Marshall -- Federal civil rights legislation / John F. Kennedy -- Beyond nonviolence / John Lewis -- Positive action programs / Roy Wilkins -- The voting rights act / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Black power / Stokely Carmichael -- The fight for rights continues. Our time has come / Jesse Jackson -- Apartheid and the American civil rights movement / Nelson Mandela -- Our nation is greater because of our diversity / Morris Dees -- Growing beyond racism / Marcia Cantarella -- Racial equality in America / Franklin Raines. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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United States -- Race relations -- Sources.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
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| Added Author |
Karson, Jill.
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| ISBN |
0737715944 paperback |
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0737715936 lib. |
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