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Free at last : the U.S. civil rights movement / [by Michael Jay Friedman].

by Friedman, Michael Jay.

U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, c2008.

323.1196073 F911f

Slavery -- United States -- History.

Blacks -- Civil rights -- History.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.

United States -- Race relations.

American Studies Library Collection.

67 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 28 cm.

Title from cover.

Slavery spreads to America -- "Three-fifths of other persons" : a promise deferred -- "Separate but equal" : African Americans respond to the failure of reconstruction -- Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall launch the legal challenge to segregation -- "We have a movement" -- "It cannot continue" : establishing legal equality -- Epilogue : Triumphs of the civil rights movement.

This book recounts how African-American slaves and their descendants struggled to win -- both in law and in practice -- the civil rights enjoyed by other Americans. It is a story of dignified persistence and struggle, a story that produced great heroes and heroines, and one that ultimately succeeded by forcing Americans to confront squarely the shameful gap between their universal principles of equality and justice and the inequality, injustice, and oppression faced by millions of their fellow citizens.

United States. Department of State. Bureau of International Information Programs.

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