Black history for beginners / Denise Dennis ; illustrated by Susan Willmarth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dennis, Denise.

Contributor:

Willmarth, Susan, illustrator.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Writers and Readers documentary comic book ; 24.

A Writers and Readers documentary comic book ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--Juvenile literature.

African Americans.

History.

African Americans--History.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

189 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Distribution:

New York : Distributed in the USA by W.W. Norton and Company.

Place of Publication:

New York : Writers and Readers, 1984.

Summary:

Chronicle of African American struggle; slavery, civil rights and current events.

Contents:

The Explorers

The First Challenge

Black Codes, Slave Codes, States' Rights, Jim Crow Laws, Segregation, Racial Discrimination, Home Rule

The Colonies

The Quakers

American Revolution

Revolts for Freedom

The Underground Railway

States, Slaves, the Stakes

Civil War

Reconstruction

The Migration

The Twentieth Century

World War I

The Harlem Renaissance

Black Nationalism

The Unions

World War II

Brown vs. Board of Education Decision

Boycotts

The Sit-Ins

Freedom Rides

Mass Marches.

Notes:

"Art Direction: Janet Siefert. Cover Illustration: Lee Robinson."

"Cover illustration: Lee Robinson."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-188).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0863160689

9780863160684

0863160697

9780863160691

OCLC:

11474633