The day Martin Luther King Jr. was shot : a photo history of the civil rights movement / [book]
By: Haskins, James.
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BookPublisher: New York, NY : Scholastic, c1992Description: 96 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0590436619; 0590436619 :; 0590436619 (pbk) :; 0590436619 :; 0590436619 (pbk) :; 9780590436618 (pbk.); 0590436619 (pbk.).Subject(s): Civil rights movements -- United States | Afro-Americans | United States -- Race relations | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile literature | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 | Afro-Americans | Afro-Americans | United States | African Americans | Slavery -- United StatesDDC classification: 323.1/196073 | 323.1/196073 | 323.196073 Includes bibliographical references (p. 93) and index.
End of an era -- Earliest fighters for freedom -- Slave resistance in North America -- Freedom for the colonies -- African American church -- Abolitionist movement -- Underground Railroad -- War between the States -- Reconstruction -- Jim Crow -- Fight or leave -- Blacks and the press -- War and peace -- Depression and the New Deal -- World War II -- "With all deliberate speed" -- Nonviolent protest -- Sitting and riding -- Marching for freedom -- Black Power -- On from Selma -- Blacks in office -- Struggle goes on -- Important dates in the fight for African American rights -- For further reading.
Presents the history of the civil rights movement through pictures, newspaper clippings, and text, from colonial times to 1991, framed within the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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