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Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968: We Shall Overcome, Some Day (2nd ed.)
by Mitch Yamasaki

9781932663204

Noted historian Mitch Yamasaki’s anthology features speeches, oral histories, and writing of political leaders, civil rights leaders, and many of the average citizens who fought for and against civil rights for African Americans and provides an overview of key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement:  legal, political, social, and cultural effects of desegregation, white resistance, the Montgomery bus boycotts, the Little Rock Nine, Freedom Rides, voting rights struggles, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Black Power, and more.

ISBN: 978-1-932663-20-4 (2nd ed.)     Price: 7.95     102 pages, paperback