| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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age Age group: Teenagers lcdgt |
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edu Educational level group: High school students lcdgt |
| 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. |
| Audience |
1030L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader UG 8.3 9.0. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-281) and index. |
| 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. |
| Awards |
Coretta Scott King Award, author, 1992. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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African Americans -- History.
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937- Now is your time! 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, ©1991 (OCoLC)756455591 |
| ISBN |
9780060243708 (hardcover) |
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0060243708 (hardcover) |
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9780060243715 (lib bdg.) |
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0060243716 (lib bdg.) |
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9780606011075 (Turtleback) |
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0606011072 (Turtleback) |
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9780064461207 (paperback) |
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0064461203 (paperback) |
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