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David Sadzin
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Relive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history.
Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as White people. But by the 1950s, Black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change.
Author Sherri L. Smith brings to life momentous events through the words and stories of people who were on the frontlines of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
©2020 Sherri L. Smith (P)2020 Listening LibraryListeners also enjoyed...
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Thank God for this book knowledge is power
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 228
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Story5 out of 5 stars 227
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5 out of 5 stars
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mind blowing
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Sundown Towns examines thousands of all-white American towns that were - and still are, in some instances - racially exclusive by design.
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Local history is important
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Unknown Latino History
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The Dead Are Arising
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5 out of 5 stars
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After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War. Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti-black riots and lynchings swept the country. From April to November of 1919, the racial unrest rolled across the South into the North and the Midwest, even to the nation's capital. Red Summer is the first narrative history about this epic encounter.
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Better Understand 2019 by Looking Closely at 1919
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America on Fire
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4 out of 5 stars
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Giant leaps of logic
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By: Elizabeth Hinton
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