A Dream of Freedom

出版者:Scholastic Nonfiction

作者:Diane Mcwhorter

页数:160

出版时间:2004-10-01

价格:USD 19.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780439576789

In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown versus the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated). 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 Rides, and the 1963 demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama, among others.The author uses interviews she conducted personally with