The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement 9780807040072, 080704007X

"Filling a gap in the scholarship of American history, V. P. Franklin crafts the first full-length history of the c

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The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
9780807040072, 080704007X

Explains the origins, development, results and the debates surrounding the movement for racial equality in the USA GBS_

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