Miles to go for freedom : segregation & civil rights in the Jim Crow years / Linda Barrett Osborne.
2012
E185.61 .O827 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Miles to go for freedom : segregation & civil rights in the Jim Crow years / Linda Barrett Osborne.
ISBN
9781419700200
1419700200
1419700200
Imprint
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, c2012.
Language
English
Description
ix, 118 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 26 cm.
Call Number
E185.61 .O827 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.896/073009041
Summary
Told through first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years. Multiple perspectives are examined as the book looks at the impact of legal segregation and discrimination on the day-to-day life of black and white Americans across the country.
Note
"Published in association with the Library of Congress"--T.p.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-114) and index.
Added Corporate Author
Library of Congress.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The South
The North
The nation
Time line.
The South
The North
The nation
Time line.