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A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968

Resource Type

Book - Child

Description

Product Description "In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown versus the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated). Beginning with an overview of the movement since the end of the Civil War, McWhorter also discusses such events as the 1956 MTGS bus boycott, the 1961 Freedom Rides, and the 1963 demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama, among others.The author uses interviews she conducted personally with."

Ages

9 years - 12 years.

Languages

English

ISBN

0439576784

Author

Diane McWhorter

Publication

2004 Scholastic Nonfiction

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