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21) Life as a slave
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Looks at everyday life for slaves in pre-emancipation America, including the duties for which they were responsible, their relationships with their masters, and the ways they found to cope with the humiliation and repression of slavery.
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Traces the route to civil rights through the towns, buildings, streets, and historic sights of eight southern states. Discusses the history, triumphs, challenges, and people of the movement. Includes 150 photographs, maps, web sites, and dozens of primary sources.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault chronicles her efforts to gain entry to the all-white University of Georgia and places her struggles within the greater context of the Civil Rights Movement. Hunter-Gault also discusses how her and others' efforts during this period paved the way for modern African-American achievements.
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A history of America's civil rights movement traces the pivotal influence of sexual violence that victimized African American women for centuries, revealing Rosa Parks's contributions as an anti-rape activist years before her heroic bus protest.
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"When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove...