Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v. the Board of Education case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series.



Autorentext

Juan Williams is an American journalist and a political analyst for Fox News. He also writes for several newspapers including the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal and was a senior news analyst for National Public Radio from 1999 until 2010.

Julian Bond is an American social activist, professor, writer, and politician with more than twenty years of service in Georgia's legislative chambers. He was also the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1998 until 2010.



Inhalt

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: God Bless the Child: The Story of School Desegregation Chapter Two: Standing for Justice: Mississippi and the Till Case Chapter Three: We're Not Moving to the Back, Mr. Blake: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Chapter Four: Hall Monitors from the 101st: The Little Rock Story Chapter Five: Down Freedom's Main Line: The Movement's Next Generation Chapter Six: Freedom in the Air: The Lessons of Albany and Birmingham Interlude: The March on Washington Chapter Seven: Mississippi: Freedom Has Never Been Free Chapter Eight: Selma: The Bridge to Freedom

Epilogue Notes Bibliography Credits Staff Index

Titel
Eyes on the Prize
Untertitel
America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
EAN
9781101639306
ISBN
978-1-101-63930-6
Format
E-Book (epub)
Veröffentlichung
03.09.2013
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
19.57 MB
Anzahl Seiten
320
Jahr
2013
Untertitel
Englisch