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Miles to go for freedom, segregation & civil rights in the Jim Crow years, Linda Barrett Osborne

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Miles to go for freedom, segregation & civil rights in the Jim Crow years, Linda Barrett Osborne
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (page 113) and index
Illustrations
illustrationsmaps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Miles to go for freedom
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
707968757
Responsibility statement
Linda Barrett Osborne
Sub title
segregation & civil rights in the Jim Crow years
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
Target audience
adolescent
Classification
Content
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