Forever Free
From the Emancipation Proclamation to the Civil Rights Bill of 1875, 1863-1875
New York : Philadelphia : Chelsea House, [1995]
Format: Book
Description: 119 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
The era begins during America's great civil war, when President Abraham Lincoln decreed the rebel South's slaves free; it ends in 1875, when Congress passed a bill assuring African American rights. Between those towering milestones, blacks moved from bondage to freedom, from political impotence to civil power. But threatening every step of their journey was a seemingly unbreachable barrier of racism. Blacks fell back time and again; time and again they rallied and surged forward. Crowded with dramatic action and unforgettable black personalities, Forever Free presents an extraordinary epoch of black U.S. history.
Series: Milestones in Black American history.
ISBN:
0791022536
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C HISTORY US Culture Hen | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.