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Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Guardians of Liberty explores the essential and basic American ideal of freedom of the press. Allowing the American press to publish-even if what they're reporting is contentious-without previous censure or interference by the federal government was so important to the Founding Fathers that they placed a guarantee in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Citing numerous examples from America's past, from the American Revolution to the Vietnam...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
ix, 118 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A detailed and thought-provoking account of segregation" including photos and first-person stories illustrating life in the Jim Crow era (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Told through unforgettable first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years. Multiple perspectives...
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