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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Uses slave narratives, letters, diaries, military orders, and other documents to chronicle the various stages leading to the emancipation of slaves in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the beginning of Reconstruction to the present, traces the struggle of blacks to gain their civil rights in America, with a brief comparison of their problems to those of other minorities.
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
xiii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the first black-controlled union, made up of Pullman porters, who after years of unfair labor practices staged a battle against a corporate giant resulting in a "David and Goliath" ending.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.
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