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Reporting Civil Rights
For  many Americans born in the late '60s and after, the civil rights movement is likely defined through grainy images of Rosa Parks, MLK Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, and segregated schools. The reporters who vividly captured our nation's impassioned struggle are now sharing their important work in a two-book anthology, as well as on this site from the Library of America. From A. Philip Randolph's 1941 cry for African-Americans to march on Washington D.C. to a retrospective written by Alice Walker in 1973, all the major moments in the fight for equality are chronologically presented from the '40s through the early '70s in an interactive timeline. Each decade lists the cast of players who contributed to the fight, and includes a robust author index with biographies, bibliographies, and selected texts. This comprehensive journalistic presentation fills in all the gaps and forgotten details, and gives younger citizens an incomparable reference tool for a watershed moment in American history. (in U.S. History) |
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