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Jessie Carney Smith and Linda T. Wynn

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Smith, Jessie Carney.

Freedom facts and firsts: 400 years of the African American civil rights experience / Jessie Carney Smith and Linda T. Wynn.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-57859-192-3 (pbk.) — ISBN 978-1-57859-243-2 (ebook) 1. African Americans—Civil rights—History. 2. United States—Race relations—History. 3. Civil rights workers—United States—Biography. 4. African American civil rights workers—Biography. 5. African Americans—Biography. I. Wynn, Linda T. II. Title.

E185.61.S636 2009

323.1196’073—dc22

2008041503

Printed in the United States of America

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