Human and civil rights; essential primary sources.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Human and civil rights; essential primary sources.

Ed. by K. Lee et al.

Thomson Gale

2006

519 pages

$110.00

Hardcover

Social issues primary sources collection

JC571

The material in this collection provides insight into emerging concepts of rights and a global perspective of successes and failures in civil rights movements. Each of the primary sources include...

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