| Description |
x, 306 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [295]-296. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
I saw a slave slip -- Freedom's journal -- Walker's appeal -- Nat Turner's revolt -- Picking cotton -- Slavery days -- The ABC's -- Why am I a slave? -- A kidnapping -- A slave sale -- Christmas on the plantation -- On the underground railroad -- A refusal to pay taxes -- Let him come and take me -- What is your fourth of July to me? -- Is money the answer? -- Could I die in a more noble cause? -- Men of color, to arms! -- It was a glorious day! -- A letter from the front -- To my old master -- When freedom come -- From Memphis to New Orleans -- I shall not beg for my rights -- His crime was his color -- KKK -- We did not discriminate -- I had reached the promised land -- Justice demands it -- You all must live agreeable -- Exodus -- Cast down your bucket where you are -- I want equality-- nothing less! -- A happy set of people -- No cowards or trucklers -- Mob law in Lincoln's state -- My soul is full of color -- I want to get out -- My first lesson -- The one-room kitchenette -- We return-- fighting! -- Black men, you shall be great again -- The right to a home -- Free within ourselves -- This is me! I'm somebody! -- Just hanging on -- No rent money -- Ain't make nothing, don't speck nothing -- We gonna make this a union town yet! -- March on Washington -- Bus boycott -- Oh brothers, if you only knew -- Tell about Mississippi -- Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round -- Don't nobody tell me to keep quiet -- That is all there is, it's the work! -- Troubled on every side. |
| Summary |
A history of Black people in the United States, as told through letters, speeches, articles, eyewitness accounts, and other documents. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
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United States -- Race relations -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
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African Americans -- History -- Sources.
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Race relations -- Sources.
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Black people -- History.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| Added Author |
Meltzer, Milton, 1915-2009.
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| ISBN |
0690044194 |
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9780690044195 |
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0690044186 (library binding) |
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9780690044188 (library binding) |
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