My friends, there comes a time
when people get tired
of being trampled over
by the iron feet of oppression.
There comes a time...
when people get tired
of being plunged across
the abyss of humiliation...
There comes a time...
Speaking on the first night of the Montgomery bus boycott in December 1955, Martin Luther King, Jr., gave voice to African Americans frustrated by more than 300 years of injustice. The Declaration of Independence promised life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, yet African Americans were still not allowed to vote, or even to sit and eat where they wished.
Award-winning author Milton Meltzer examines the many facets of the civil rights movement and the events that came before—from the arrival of the first slave ships on colonial shores to the Supreme Court's landmark Brown decision. An unflinching look at the history of racism in this country, this book is a must for every reader—young or old—who cares about where we've been, and where we're going.
—from the dust jacket
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