Book Description
For all of the continuity of African-American history, including the long history of struggle, the years between 1945 and 1970 represented a new moment. It was a time of new possibilities and new vision, a time when black Americans were determined to be the architects of an inclusive America that championed human rights for all. In ^IWe Changed the World^R, Vincent Harding, himself a participant in the Southern freedom movement, documents what was perhaps the most critical chapter in African-Amer
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Examines African-American life at the close of World War II, describes the struggle for freedom and justice during the 1940s and 1950s, and discusses the explosive years of the 1960s.