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Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the thousands of enslaved and free African Americans living in this country. But African Americans took up their own fight for freedom by joining the British and American armies; preaching, speaking out, and writing about the evils of slavery; and establishing settlements in Nova Scotia and Africa. The thirteen...
Author
Publisher
Gulliver Books/Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 107 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Profiles ten African American women including Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Shirley Chisholm, whose courageous acts against oppression made them leaders in the battle for civil rights.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration...
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