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Title African American civil rights movement [electronic resource].
OCLC icwb2705
ISBN 9780716625667 (electronic bk.)
Publisher Chicago : World Book, c2014.
Description 1 online resource : ill. (chiefly col.)
LC Subject heading/s African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Race relations -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
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Genre heading/s		 Electronic books
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "A history of the African American civil rights movement, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources"--Provided by publisher.
Contents What are civil rights? -- Slavery -- Civil war and emancipation -- Reconstruction -- Trouble in the south -- The era of Jim Crow -- Two African American leaders -- Conflict and action -- The campaign against lynching -- The great migration -- Black labor and the New Deal -- World War II and its aftermath -- The struggle for quality education -- The Montgomery bus boycott -- A new leader emerges -- The tactics of nonviolence -- Birmingham, 1963 -- The victims -- The march on Washington -- The Johnson presidency -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- The Voting Rights Act -- New voices -- Black ghettos and urban riots -- The death of King -- Affirmative action -- New black leaders -- President Barack Obama -- Timeline -- Sources.
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