African Americans Suffrage

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Eyes on the prize : America's civil rights years. Mississippi : is this America? (1962-64) -- E185.615 .E94 1986 V.5

Focuses on the continuing civil rights struggle in Mississippi. The story covers the voter registration drive during Freedom Summer in 1964 when students and others from the north came to Mississippi to implement black participation in the political process. Also includes the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and their unsuccessful attempt to sit in at the 1964 Democatic Party

Eyes on the prize : America's civil rights years. Bridge to freedom 1965 -- E185.615 .E94 1986 V.6

Covers the push for black voting rights in Alabama and nationally. The division within the civil rights movement between the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) grows, particularly in their approach to the Selma-Montgomery Freedom March in 1965. That same year sees the National Voting Rights Act signed into law by President Lyn