Free at last : the U.S. civil rights movement/ Michael Jay Friedman

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: USA : U.S. Department of State, 2008Description: 67 pISBN:
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Subject(s): Summary: This book recounts how those African-American slaves and their descendants struggled to win both in law and in practice the civil rights enjoyed by other Americans. It is a story of dignified persistence and struggle, a story that produced great heroes and heroines, and one that ultimately succeeded by forcing the majority of Americans to confront squarely the shameful gap between their universal principles of equality and justice and the inequality, injustice, and oppression faced by millions of their fellow citizens.
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This book recounts how those African-American slaves and their descendants struggled to win both in law and in practice the civil rights enjoyed by other Americans. It is a story of dignified persistence and struggle, a story that produced great heroes and heroines, and one that ultimately succeeded by forcing the majority of Americans to confront squarely the shameful gap between their universal principles of equality and justice and the inequality, injustice, and oppression faced by millions of their fellow citizens.

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