Author: Dissected Lives Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC ISBN: 154195260X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 73
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What could Crispus Attackus, an African American, have done to be hailed as a hero during the US Revolutionary Period? This biography book will give you a glimpse into the life and times of Crispus Attucks. Learn from his struggles, failures and victories. Get a copy of this book today.
Author: Anne Beier Publisher: Rosen Young Adult ISBN: 9780823941063 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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Introduces the life of Crispus Attucks, a former slave who died in the Boston Massacre, a fight between the British and American colonists that occurred before the American Revolution.
Author: Nancy I. Sanders Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1556528116 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 161
Book Description
Celebrates the lives and contributions of African-American leaders who played significant roles in colonial and Revolutionary War-era America, and includes over twenty related activities.
Author: Burke Davis Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780152085612 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 100
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The black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence are profiled in this fascinating history which features prints and portraits from the period.
Author: Charlotte Taylor Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC ISBN: 0766071855 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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Through simple, informational text supported by black-and-white and color illustrations, readers will learn about Crispus Attucks, who had an exciting life at sea before going down in history as the first casualty of the Boston Massacre. A Words to Know section at the beginning of the book prepares students to understand the vocabulary they encounter in the text, and quotations about Attucks demonstrate how he inspired generations of Americans long after his death.
Author: Mitch Kachun Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199910863 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 329
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First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americans' struggle to incorporate their experiences and heroes into the mainstream of the American historical narrative. While the other victims of the Massacre have been largely ignored, Attucks is widely celebrated as the first to die in the cause of freedom during the era of the American Revolution. He became a symbolic embodiment of black patriotism and citizenship. This book traces Attucks's career through both history and myth to understand how his public memory has been constructed through commemorations and monuments; institutions and organizations bearing his name; juvenile biographies; works of poetry, drama, and visual arts; popular and academic histories; and school textbooks. There will likely never be a definitive biography of Crispus Attucks since so little evidence exists about the man's actual life. While what can and cannot be known about Attucks is addressed here, the focus is on how he has been remembered--variously as either a hero or a villain--and why at times he has been forgotten by different groups and individuals from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Author: James Haskins Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks ISBN: 9780590428972 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 215
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Presents brief biographies of twelve African Americans who courageously fought against racism to become leaders in their fields, including Marian Anderson, Ralph Bunche, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Malcolm X.
Author: Joycelyn Moody Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108875661 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 724
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This History explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representation amid life writing studies. By analyzing the different forms of autobiography, including pictorial and personal essays, editorials, oral histories, testimonials, diaries, personal and open letters, and even poetry performance media of autobiographies, this book extends the definition of African American autobiography, revealing how people of African descent have created and defined the Black self in diverse print cultures and literary genres since their arrival in the Americas. It illustrates ways African Americans use life writing and autobiography to address personal and collective Black experiences of identity, family, memory, fulfillment, racism and white supremacy. Individual chapters examine scrapbooks as a source of self-documentation, African American autobiography for children, readings of African American persona poems, mixed-race life writing after the Civil Rights Movement, and autobiographies by African American LGBTQ writers.
Author: Augusta Stevenson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0020418302 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 198
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Recreates the early life of Daniel Boone, the frontier hero who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap and led the first white settlers into Kentucky. From astronauts to athletes, and poets to presidents, the books in this popular biography series incorporate intriguing childhood anecdotes, informative career facts, and lively illustrations as they tell the real-life stories of America's most amazing individuals. There are 54 different titles available. Ages 8-12.
Author: Dissected Lives
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Author: Charlotte Taylor
Author: Mitch Kachun
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Author: James Haskins
Author: Joycelyn Moody
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