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Miles to go for freedom : segregation and civil rights in the Jim Crow years

Osborne, Linda Barrett, 1949-

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Grades 6 and up. Using primary source documents from the Library of Congress, Osborne introduces readers to Jim Crow laws that legalized segregation in the United States. Osborne also discusses the landmark Brown vs. the Board of Education Supreme Court case, and how people began to fight to overturn these discriminatory laws.

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