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Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement: 1955 (Paperback)
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Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement: 1955 (Paperback)
Series: Exploring Civil Rights
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List price R366
Loot Price R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
You Save R36 (10%)
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Key events of the Civil Rights Movement will be brought to life in
this exciting and informative new series. The year 1955 saw a range
of events that brought attention to the civil rights movement. In
August, Emmett Till, a Black teenager, was brutally murdered in
Mississippi. In December, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to
a white man while riding on a bus in Alabama. Parks' brave action
resulted in the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, an event that
brought transformational change to the city. These events and more
sparked a movement that in the following years would bring Black
youth to the forefront of much needed reform in the nation. The
years from 1955 to 1965 are at the heart of the civil rights
movement--from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Voting Rights Act.
The contributions of key activists, including Rosa Parks, Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Barbara Nash, and Malcolm X,
are part of the narrative. Demonstrations of passive resistance and
legal challenges were often met with bloodshed and violence against
Black Americans fighting to end segregation and discrimination. Yet
the courage of those yearning for equal opportunities under the law
ultimately produced legislation affirming that every American
should have the same constitutional rights, regardless of color,
race, or gender.
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