Description
In this history of the brand new Civil Rights movement, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator Diane McWhorter makes a speciality of the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown as opposed to the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was once assasinated). Beginning with an summary of the movement for the reason that end of the Civil War, McWhorter also discusses such events because the 1956 MTGS bus boycott, the 1961 Freedom Rides, and the 1963 demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama, among others.
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