Bibliograph

Civil rights, Jill Karson, book editor

Type

Label

Civil rights, Jill Karson, book editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Civil rights

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

50561786

Responsibility statement

Jill Karson, book editor

Series statement

Great speeches in history series

Summary

Contains reprints of some of the most significant Civil Rights speeches in the history of the United States, each with a brief explanatory introduction

Table Of Contents

Civil rights pioneers. What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- Equality through education and self-improvement / Booker T. Washington -- A demand for equal rights / W.E.B. Du Bois -- On being a black woman / Mary Church Terrell -- Goals of the civil rights. Racial separation / Malcolm X -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Segregation now, segregation forever / George Wallace -- Voting rights / Fannie Lou Hamer -- Black pride / James Farmer -- A fully integrated society / Bayard Rustin -- Equal economic opportunity / Whitney M. Young Jr. -- Strategies and tactics. A call for mass action / A. Phillip Randolph -- Legal strategies / Thurgood Marshall -- Federal civil rights legislation / John F. Kennedy -- Beyond nonviolence / John Lewis -- Positive action programs / Roy Wilkins -- The voting rights act / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Black power / Stokely Carmichael -- The fight for rights continues. Our time has come / Jesse Jackson -- Apartheid and the American civil rights movement / Nelson Mandela -- Our nation is greater because of our diversity / Morris Dees -- Growing beyond racism / Marcia Cantarella -- Racial equality in America / Franklin Raines

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