The children / David Halberstam.
Tells the story of eight young people who, inspired by workshops on nonviolence, decided to become involved in the fight against segregation during the 1960s, beginning with staged sit-ins at Nashville lunch counters, and progressing to ever more dangerous actions on behalf of the civil rights movem...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[1998]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Tells the story of eight young people who, inspired by workshops on nonviolence, decided to become involved in the fight against segregation during the 1960s, beginning with staged sit-ins at Nashville lunch counters, and progressing to ever more dangerous actions on behalf of the civil rights movements. |
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| Physical Description: | 783 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 733-736) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0679415610 9780679415619 |