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

Williams, Juan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0606037810 ISBN 13: 9780606037815

Publisher: Demco Media, 1988

Synopsis

Traces the history of the civil rights movement, focusing on the unheralded activists who brought the movement to life

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About the Author

Juan Williams is an American journalist and a political analyst for Fox News. He also writes for several newspapers including the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal and was a senior news analyst for National Public Radio from 1999 until 2010.

Julian Bond is an American social activist, professor, writer, and politician with more than twenty years of service in Georgia’s legislative chambers. He was also the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1998 until 2010.

From Library Journal

This companion volume to the PBS TV series of the same name is an excellent, highly readable account of black America's struggle for social and political equality, covering the civil rights battle from the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 to the Selma protest marches and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Williams focuses upon specific key events, providing a narrative overview of each, interspersed with photographs and excerpts from interviews and writings of the participants. He gives a vivid portrait of the courage of individual blacks and the violence they had to endure in their struggle for desegregation and the right to vote in the South. The events themselves provide the drama. Recommended for academic and public libraries. BOMC alternate. Louis Vyhnanek, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Demco Media
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0606037810
• ISBN 13: 9780606037815
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300