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The civil rights movement

Call Number

  • J 323.1196 VENA (CEN, EAS, POW, WSQ)

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Publication Information

Mankato, MN : The Child's World, 2021.

Physical Description

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Summary

The Civil Rights Movement was a time of drastic change in America. From the end of Reconstruction, when blacks were denied their rights in the South, through the Montgomery bus boycott and Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, to the election of the first black president of the United States, witness the events that forever changed the way we look at race.

Contents

  • A citizen's right
  • A movement for change
  • The movement grows
  • "I have a dream"
  • The changing civil rights movement
  • Think about it
  • Time line.