Author: Maryland. Commission on Interracial Problems and RelationsPublisher:
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 Interracial Problems and RelationsPublisher:
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 RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Report with Recommendations of the Inter-racial Commission of Maryland
Author: Maryland Inter-racial CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Report with Recommendations of the Maryland Inter-racial Commission to the Governor and General Assembly of Maryland
Author: Maryland Inter-racial CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Report
Author: Maryland. Commission on Interracial Problems and RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Freedom's Main Line
Author: Derek Charles CatsamPublisher: 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.
1961 Commission on Civil Rights Report: Education
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Commission on Civil Rights Report
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
1961 United States Commission on Civil Rights Report
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description