The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
Clayborne Carson
784 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0140154035
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Language: English
Publish: November 1, 1991
African AmericanAmerican HistoryAnthologiesHistoryNonfictionPoliticsRaceReferenceSocial JusticeSocial Science
A record of the American civil rights movement. Included are speeches by Martin Luther King Jr, and his “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”, an interview with Rosa Parks, selections from “Malcolm X Speaks”; Black Panther Bobby Seale’s “Seize the Time”, a piece by Herman Badillo on the infamous Attica prison uprising; addresses by Harold Washington, Jesse Jackson, Nelson Mandela and much more.