| Author | Wexler, Sanford.
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| Title | The civil rights movement : an eyewitness history / Sanford Wexler ; introduction by Julian Bond.
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| Published | New York, NY : Facts on File, c1993.
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| Description | xi, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-8160-2748-X (acid-free paper) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-348) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Origins of the civil rights movement : 1865-1948 -- School desegregation and the Brown v. Board of Education decision : 1949-1954 -- Emmett Till case : 1955 -- Montgomery bus boycott : 1955-1957 -- Crisis at Central High : 1957-1959 -- Sit-ins and freedom rides : 1960-1961 -- Albany movement and James Meredith at Ole Miss : 1961-1962 -- Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Alabama : Spring 1963 -- March on Washington : 1963 -- Freedom summer : 1964 -- Selma and the Votings Rights Act : 1965 -- Legacy of the civil rights movement.
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| Summary Note | Summary: Uses speeches, articles, and other writings of those involved to trace the history of the civil rights movement in the United States, primarily from 1954 to 1965.
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| Subjects | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
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| LC Card Number | 92-28674/AC |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 185.61 W545
mq18793: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 12050] |
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