Miles to Go for Freedom Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years
Miles to Go for Freedom Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years
- ISBN 13:
9781419700200
- ISBN 10:
1419700200
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 01/01/2012
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
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Summary
Told through unforgettable 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. Complete with a bibliography and an index, this book is an important addition to black history books for young readers.