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100 _aMcWhorter, Diane.
245 _aA dream of freedom :
260 _aNew York :
_bScholastic,
_c12/10/2009
300 _a160 p. : ill. ; 25 x 28 cm.
500 _aIn this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, the author focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown v. the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Beginning with an overview of the movement since the end of the Civil War, McWhorter also discusses such events as the 1956 MTGS bus boycott, the 1961 Freedom
650 _aAfrican Americans
650 _aCivil rights movements
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