The Civil Rights Movement
- ISBN-10
- 0761416978
- ISBN-13
- 9780761416975
- Series
- The Civil Rights Movement
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 135
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Marshall Cavendish
- Author
- Elizabeth Sirimarco
Description
Presents the history of the civil rights movement in the United States, from Reconstruction to the late 1960s, through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, speeches, songs, and poems of the time.
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