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Now is your time! : the African-American struggle for freedom / Walter Dean Myers.
LIBRA E185 .M96 1991
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--History--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- History.
- African Americans--History.
- Coretta Scott King Award.
- Genre:
- Young adult literature.
- Juvenile books.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Harper Trophy ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperTrophy, 1991.
- Summary:
- A history of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality, beginning with the capture of Africans in 1619, continuing through the American Revolution, the Civil War, and into contemporary times.
- For use in schools and libraries only. A history of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality, beginning with the capture of Africans in 1619, continuing through the American Revolution, the Civil War, and into contemporary times.
- Contents:
- The land
- Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima
- The plantation society
- To make a slave
- The United States of America
- James Forten
- We the people
- To be a slave
- Fighting back
- George Latimer
- The Dred Scott case
- John Brown
- Secession
- The bower
- We look like men of war
- Fort Wagner
- The first taste of freedom
- Ida B. Wells
- Lewis Howard Latimer
- The battle in the courts
- Meta Vaux Warrick
- Brown vs. Board of Education
- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the modern civil rights movement.
- Notes:
- Coretta Scott King Award, 1992
- Originally published: 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, ©1991.
- Winner of the 1992 Coretta Scott King Award.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-281) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937- Now is your time!
- ISBN:
- 0064461203
- 9780064461207
- 9780060243715
- 0060243716
- 0833593374
- 9780833593375
- 9780060243708
- 0060243708
- 9781435280212
- 1435280210
- OCLC:
- 23143863
- Publisher Number:
- 99990724900
- 99990749803
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