A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

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In this paper consisting of eight pages the struggles for African American rights charts a course beginning with the pre-Civil War years until the 1960s Civil Rights movement and relates causes of the war to emancipation, changes in the legal system, and involvement of people in implementing social change such as Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Andrew Johnson, Frederick Douglass, W.E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. There are four bibliographic sources cited.