Description |
192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Series |
The African-American experience |
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African-American experience.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-188) and index. |
Contents |
Home of the free, land of the slave : -- David Walker -- Peter Williams, Jr. -- James Forten, Sr. -- Jermain Wesley Loguen -- John Sweat Rock -- Emancipation and reconstruction : Sojourner Truth -- Robert B. Elliott -- Blanche Kelso Bruce -- Frederick Douglass -- Mary Church Terrell -- Renewed racial strategies : Booker T. Washington -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Marcus Garvey -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- The civil rights revolution : James Baldwin -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Malcolm X -- Stokley Carmichael -- Shirley Chisholm -- James Forman -- A time for assessment : Vernon F. Jordan, Jr. -- Barbara Jordan -- Angela Y. Davis -- Jesse L. Jackson. |
Summary |
Presents speeches by various African American religious and political leaders from the days of slavery to the present, along with biographical information and historical background. |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.6 9.0 1873. |
Subject |
African Americans -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- African American authors -- Juvenile literature.
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African Americans -- History -- Sources.
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Added Author |
Halliburton, Warren J.
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ISBN |
0531110346 |
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