The Selma campaign Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmie Lee Jackson, and the defining struggle of the Civil Rights Era
"Troopers, advance! Those two words, shouted by a police commander in Selma, Alabama, some 50 years ago, changed the course of U.S. history. The date was March 7, 1965. The scene was the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And the resulting violence spurred an appalled nation into action. The Selma Campaign...
| Main Author: | Swanson, Craig (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, IN :
Archway Publishing,
2014.
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