Eyes on the Prize America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

Name: Eyes on the Prize America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
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ISBN: 9780143124740

ISBN-10: 0143124749

ISBN-13: 9780143124740

Edition: N/A

Authors: Juan Williams, Julian Bond

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The 25th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams's celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movementFrom the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the SelmaMontgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American civil rights movement; their stories are told in Eyes on the Prize. From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose John and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that somethinghad to be done to stop discrimination. These moving accounts and pictures of the first decade of the civil rights movement are a tribute to the people, black and white, who took part in the fight…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.13" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



God Bless the Child


The Story of School Desegregation



Standing for Justice


Mississippi and the Till Case



We're Not Moving to the Back, Mr. Blake


The Montgomery Bus Boycott



Hall Monitors from the 101st


The Little Rock Story



Down Freedom's Main Line


The Movement's Next Generation



Freedom in the Air


The Lessons of Albany and Birmingham


Interlude The March on Washington



Mississippi


Freedom Has Never Been Free



Selma


The Bridge to Freedom


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Credits


Staff


Index