Voices of Freedom
Subtitle: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
Publisher: Bantam
Published: February 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780553352320
Subjects: Human rights; History: American; Discrimination & Racism; Political And Civil Rights; Race And Ethnic Relations; United States; History; History - General History; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; General; Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations; 20th century; Sources; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; United States - 20th Century; 1877-1964; Afro-Americans; Civil rights; Civil rights movements
First sentence: On August 20, 1955, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old from Chicago's South Side, almost missed the train that would carry him to a summer visit with relatives in the Mississippi Delta.