The Civil Rights Movement
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Examining Issues Through Political Cartoons: Civil Rights
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The Civil Rights Movement (Eyewitness History)
Contains excerpts from memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches, advertisements, and other primary sources that provide eyewitness reports on the American civil rights movement, and features introductory essays, chronologies, period illustrations and photographs, and brief biographies of key individuals.
Civil Rights Chronicle
Chronicles the history of the civil rights movement in America from slavery to the present day and contains illustrated photographs, essays, and a timeline that documents such events as the Montgomery bus boycott, Freedom Rides, marches and sit-ins, and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act of the mid-1960s.
Civil Rights
Presents a representative selection of editorial cartoons on the topic of civil rights, each with background information and analysis, and includes an introductory essay, a bibliography, and references
Encyclopedia of World Biography
Presents brief biographical sketches which provide vital statistics as well as information on the importance of the person listed. 17 v.
American National Biography
Contains alphabetically arranged articles that provide biographical information about men and women whose lives and careers have influenced the course of American history, focusing on the key achievements of individuals who died before 1996; each with a descriptive bibliography.
Dictionary of American History
American Decades, 10 v.
A decade-by-decade exploration of American life in the twentieth century, looking at key people, events, and topics in the arts and many other areas.
Events That Changed America in the Twentieth Century
Offers detailed descriptions and expert analysis of important 20th century events in America.
History in Dispute: American Social and Political Movements, 1945-2000
Contains over thirty groups of essays, each of which includes an overview of an issue related to American social and political movements between 1945 and 2000, followed by two opposing opinions. Arranged alphabetically by topic.
U.S.A. Fifties
Provides information on the people, events, political, social, economic, and cultural developments, technological advances, policies, and tragedies that shaped the 1950s.
U. S. A. Sixties
Presents over three hundred alphabetically arranged articles on the major events, personalities, and cultural forces in the United States during the 1960s, with maps and charts, short biographies, and a timeline