| Description |
xxviii, 692 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [665]-670). |
| Contents |
"I wanted the whole world to see" / Emmett Till, 1955 -- Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956 : "Like a revival starting" -- Little Rock crisis, 1957-1958 : "I had cracked the wall" -- Student sit-ins in Nashville, 1960 : "Badge of honor" -- Freedom rides, 1961 : "Sticks and bricks" -- Albany, Georgia, 1961-1962 : "Mother lode" -- James Meredith enters Ole Miss, 1962 : "Things would never be the same" -- Birmingham, 1963 : "Something has got to change" -- Organizing in Mississippi, 1961-1963 : "The reality of what we were doing hit me" -- March on Washington, 1963 : "They voted with their feet" -- Sixteenth Street Church bombing, 1963 : "You realized how intense the opposition was" -- Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964 : "Representation and the right to participate" -- Selma, 1965 : "Troopers, advance" -- Malcolm X (1925-1965) : "Our own black shining prince!" -- Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 1965-1966 : "Vote for the Panther, then go home" -- Meredith march, 1966 : "Hit them now" -- Chicago, 1966 : "Chicago was a symbol" -- Muhammad Ali, 1964-1967 : "I am the greatest" -- King and Vietnam, 1965-1967 : "His philosophy made it impossible not to take a stand" -- Birth of the Black Panthers, 1966-1967 : "We wanted control" -- Detroit, 1967 : "Inside most black people there was a time bomb" -- Election of Carl Stokes : "We had to be organized" -- Howard University, 1967-1968 : "You saw the silhouette of her Afro" -- King's last crusade : "We've got some difficult days ahead" -- Resurrection City, 1968 : "The end of a major battle" -- Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 1967-1968 : "Everything became more political" -- Black Panthers, 1968-1969 : "How serious and deadly the game" -- Attica and prisoners' rights, 1971 : "There's always time to die" -- Gary convention, 1972 : "Unity without uniformity" -- Busing in Boston, 1974-1976 : "As if some alien was coming into the school" -- Atlanta and affirmative action, 1973-1980 : "Politics of inclusion" -- Epilogue : From Miami to America's future. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Race relations -- Sources.
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African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964 -- Sources.
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African Americans -- History -- 1964- -- Sources.
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Oral history.
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| Added Author |
Hampton, Henry, 1940-1988.
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Fayer, Steve, 1935-
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Flynn, Sarah, 1950-
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| ISBN |
0553057340 : $25.95 ($31.95 Can.) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 081592523 |
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