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1) Double victory: how African American women broke race and gender barriers to help win World War II
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An account of the lesser-known contributions of African-American women during World War II reveals how they helped lay the foundations for the Civil Rights Movement by challenging racial and gender barriers at home and abroad.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
Series
Eyes on the Prize volume America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985
America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985
America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985
Pub. Date
[2014], c1994
Language
English
Description
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) come north to help Chicago's civil rights leaders in their nonviolent struggle against segregated housing. Their efforts pit them against Chicago's powerful mayor, Richard Daley. When a series of marches through all-white neighborhoods draws violence, King and Daley negotiate with mixed results. In Detroit, a police raid in a black neighborhood sparks an urban uprising...
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