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American struggles for civil rights


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to American struggles for civil rights
Abolitionists
2Southworth and Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker
3The scourged back
4Abolitionists
Prejudice
5The Klu Klux Klan and race hatred in America
Slavery
6Emancipated slaves in the USA
7A symbol of race hatred - lynchings in America
People
8Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Movements
9The Black Panther Party
Photographers
10Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Rights Movement (1962-1964)
11Ernest Withers: The struggle for civil rights in the USA
12Flip Schulke: Civil rights in America

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