African-American Civil Rights in the USA

By David McGill
October 2009
Philip Allan
ISBN: 9780340974636
102 pages, illustrated
$29.95 paper original


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Table of Contents: Chapter 1 What are the standard views on the civil rights movement? Chapter 2 How did the segregated system in the South develop? Chapter 3 Why did the First and Second World War fail to bring blacks their freedom? Chapter 4 How did blacks challenge segregation after 1945? Chapter 5 How did the civil rights struggle become a mass movement? Chapter 6: How did the civil rights movement end segregation? Chapter 7: How successful was the civil rights movement Photographs from the civil rights period Glossary


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