Miles to go for freedom : segregation & civil rights in the Jim Crow years

Author

Linda Barrett Osborne

Call Number

• 323.1196 O816 TEEN (OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, c2012.

Physical Description

ix, 118 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 26 cm.

Summary

Told through first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years. Multiple perspectives are examined as the book looks at the impact of legal segregation and discrimination on the day-to-day life of black and white Americans across the country.

Notes

"Published in association with the Library of Congress"--T.p.

Contents

• Introduction
• The South
• The North
• The nation
• Time line.