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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 Trade paperback - 1988

by Williams, Juan

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Arguably the most tumultuous time in recent American history, the Civil Rights years inspired the most rational and irrational of human behaviors and set the stage for sweeping reform in the nation's race relations. Juan Williams's moving chronicle of the movement stands as the definitive history of the era.

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Penguin Books, 1988. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author.. xv, 300, [5] p. Illustrations. Timeline. Notes. Index. Introduction by Julian Bond. This is the companion volume to the PBS television series. This compelling oral history of the first ten years of the Civil Rights movement is a tribute to the men and women, both black and white, who took part in the fight for justice and kept their eyes on the prize of freedom.
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  • Title Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
  • Author Williams, Juan
  • Binding Trade paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author.
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1988
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 58997
  • ISBN 9780140096538 / 0140096531
  • Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 7.5 x 0.64 in (23.32 x 19.05 x 1.63 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1140
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Civil rights - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 323.097

Summary

Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v. the Board of Education case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series.

From the publisher

"A Robert Lavelle book." "Originally published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin Inc., 1987"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-297) and index.

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