Author: Maryland. Commission on Interracial Problems and Relations
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commission on Interracial Problems and Relations to the Governor and General Assembly of Maryland
Author: Maryland. Commission on Interracial Problems and Relations
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commission on Interracial Problems and Relations to the Governor and General Assembly of Maryland
Author: Maryland. Commission on Human Relations
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Freedom's Main Line
Author: Derek Charles Catsam
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813138868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
“A compelling, spellbinding examination of a pivotal event in civil rights history . . . a highly readable and dramatic account of a major turning point.” —Journal of African-American History Black Americans in the Jim Crow South could not escape the grim reality of racial segregation, whether enforced by law or by custom. In Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, author Derek Charles Catsam shows that courtrooms, classrooms, and cemeteries were not the only front lines in African Americans’ prolonged struggle for basic civil rights. Buses, trains, and other modes of public transportation provided the perfect means for civil rights activists to protest the second-class citizenship of African Americans, bringing the reality of the violence of segregation into the consciousness of America and the world. Freedom’s Main Line argues that the Freedom Rides, a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, were a logical, natural evolution of such earlier efforts as the Journey of Reconciliation, relying on the principles of nonviolence so common in the larger movement. The impact of the Freedom Rides, however, was unprecedented, fixing the issue of civil rights in the national consciousness. Later activists were often dubbed Freedom Riders even if they never set foot on a bus. With challenges to segregated transportation as his point of departure, Catsam chronicles black Americans’ long journey toward increased civil rights. Freedom’s Main Line tells the story of bold incursions into the heart of institutional discrimination, journeys undertaken by heroic individuals who forced racial injustice into the national and international spotlight and helped pave the way for the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813138868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
“A compelling, spellbinding examination of a pivotal event in civil rights history . . . a highly readable and dramatic account of a major turning point.” —Journal of African-American History Black Americans in the Jim Crow South could not escape the grim reality of racial segregation, whether enforced by law or by custom. In Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, author Derek Charles Catsam shows that courtrooms, classrooms, and cemeteries were not the only front lines in African Americans’ prolonged struggle for basic civil rights. Buses, trains, and other modes of public transportation provided the perfect means for civil rights activists to protest the second-class citizenship of African Americans, bringing the reality of the violence of segregation into the consciousness of America and the world. Freedom’s Main Line argues that the Freedom Rides, a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, were a logical, natural evolution of such earlier efforts as the Journey of Reconciliation, relying on the principles of nonviolence so common in the larger movement. The impact of the Freedom Rides, however, was unprecedented, fixing the issue of civil rights in the national consciousness. Later activists were often dubbed Freedom Riders even if they never set foot on a bus. With challenges to segregated transportation as his point of departure, Catsam chronicles black Americans’ long journey toward increased civil rights. Freedom’s Main Line tells the story of bold incursions into the heart of institutional discrimination, journeys undertaken by heroic individuals who forced racial injustice into the national and international spotlight and helped pave the way for the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
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Report
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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1961 Commission on Civil Rights Report: Education
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Commission on Civil Rights Report
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
Report
Author: Maryland. Commission on Human Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division
Publisher:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.