Author: Sada Bailey FowlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Irene, Or, The Road to Freedom
Author: Sada Bailey FowlerTurning 15 on the Road to Freedom
Author: Lynda Blackmon LoweryPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147512166
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes--now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide. As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed eleven times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African-Americans. In this memoir, she shows today's young readers what it means to fight nonviolently (even when the police are using violence, as in the Bloody Sunday protest) and how it felt to be part of changing American history. Straightforward and inspiring, this beautifully illustrated memoir brings readers into the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, complementing Common Core classroom learning and bringing history alive for young readers.
On the Road to Freedom
Author: Charles E. Cobb (Jr.)Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565124391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
An award-winning black journalist takes a pilgrimage through the sites and landmarks of the civil rights movement as he journeys to key locales that served as a backdrop to important events of the 1960s, journeying around the country to pay tribute to the people, organizations, and events that transformed America. Original.
Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality
Author: Joanne Ellen PassetPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252028045
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Passet shows that the majority of correspondents who participated in the sex radical movement resided in the Midwest and the Great Plains states, where ideas of individual freedom and sovereignty resonated particularly strongly.".
The Annual American Catalogue
Author: The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900
Author: Up a Road Slowly
Author: Irene HuntPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101143940
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The beloved author of Across Five Aprils and No Promises in the Wind presents one of her most cherished novels, the Newbery Award-winning story of a young girl’s coming of age… Julie would remember her happy days at Aunt Cordelia’s forever. Running through the spacious rooms, singing on rainy nights in front of the fireplace. There were the rides in the woods on Peter the Great, and the races with Danny Trevort. There were the precious moments alone in her room at night, gazing at the sea of stars. But there were sad times too—the painful jealousy Julie felt after her sister married, the tragic death of a schoolmate and the bitter disappointment of her first love. Julie was having a hard time believing life was fair. But Julie would have to be fair to herself before she could even think about new beginnings... “Hunt demonstrates that she is a writer of the first rank...Those who follow Julie's growth—from a tantrum-throwing seven-year-old to a gracious young woman of seventeen—will find this book has added a new dimension to their lives.”—The New York Times Book Review
Catalogue of English Prose Fiction, Including Juveniles and Translations
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Catalogue of English Prose Fiction and Juvenile Books in the Chicago Public Library
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Eliza's Freedom Road
Author: Jerdine NolenPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442417234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Christopher Award–winning author Jerdine Nolen imagines a young woman’s journey from slavery to freedom in this intimate and powerful novel that was named an ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults nominee. It is 1854 in Alexandria, Virginia. Eliza’s mother has been sold away and Eliza is left as a slave on a Virginia farm. It is Abbey, the cook, who looks after Eliza, when she isn’t taking care of the Mistress. Eliza has only the quilt her mother left her and the stories her mother told to keep her mother’s memory close. When the Mistress’s health begins to fail and Eliza overhears the Master talk of the Slave sale auction and of Eliza being traded, she takes to the night. She follows the path and the words of the farmhand Old Joe: “Travel the night. Sleep the day…Go east. Keep your back to the setting of the sun. Come to the safe house with a candlelight in the window…That gal, Harriet, she’ll take you.” All the while, Eliza recites the stories her mother taught her as she travels along her freedom road from Mary’s Land to Pennsylvania to Freedom’s Gate in St. Catharines, Canada, where she finds not only her freedom but also more than she could have hoped for.