The Story of Freedom
Title | The Story of Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Swanson |
Publisher | Generations |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-02-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781732705043 |
Passage to Freedom
Title | Passage to Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Mochizuki |
Publisher | Lerner Publishing Group |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1430130334 |
"Listening to the story is even more dramatic than reading it. It should be purchased by every public and school library." - School Library Journal
Story of American Freedom
Title | Story of American Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Foner |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1999-09-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393319620 |
Freedom is the cornerstone of his sweeping narrative that focuses not only congressional debates and political treatises since the Revolution but how the fight for freedom took place on plantation and picket lines and in parlors and bedrooms.
Henry's Freedom Box
Title | Henry's Freedom Box PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Levine |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2016-03-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1338082655 |
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.
Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party
Title | Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party PDF eBook |
Author | Jetta Grace Martin |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2022-01-18 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1646142179 |
Booklist Editors’ Choice WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World Knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It’s magic. That’s what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution. In the beginning, it was a story like any other. It could have been yours and it could have been mine. But once it got going, it became more than any one person could have imagined. This is the story of Huey and Bobby. Eldridge and Kathleen. Elaine and Fred and Ericka. This is the story of the committed party members. Their supporters and allies. The Free Breakfast Program and the Ten Point Program. It’s about Black nationalism, Black radicalism, about Black people in America. From the authors of the acclaimed book, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, and introducing new talent Jetta Grace Martin, comes the story of the Panthers for younger readers—meticulously researched, thrillingly told, and filled with incredible photographs throughout. P R A I S E ★ “A passionate, honest, and intimate look into an important time in civil rights history.” —Booklist (starred) ★ “Impeccable writing and stellar design make this title highly recommended.” —School Library Journal (starred) “Detailed, thoroughly researched...A valuable addition to the history of African American resistance.” —Kirkus
She Stood for Freedom
Title | She Stood for Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Loki Mulholland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781629721774 |
Biography of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland follows her from her childhood in 1950s Virginia through her high school and college years, when she joined the Civil Rights Movement, attending demonstrations and sit-ins. She also participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961 and was arrested and imprisoned. Her life has been spent standing up for human rights.
Stories of Freedom in Black New York
Title | Stories of Freedom in Black New York PDF eBook |
Author | Shane WHITE |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674045149 |
Stories of Freedom in Black New York recreates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, New York City's black community strove to realize what freedom meant, to find a new sense of itself, and, in the process, created a vibrant urban culture. Through exhaustive research, Shane White imaginatively recovers the raucous world of the street, the elegance of the city's African American balls, and the grubbiness of the Police Office. It allows us to observe the style of black men and women, to watch their public behavior, and to hear the cries of black hawkers, the strident music of black parades, and the sly stories of black conmen. Taking center stage in this story is the African Company, a black theater troupe that exemplified the new spirit of experimentation that accompanied slavery's demise. For a few short years in the 1820s, a group of black New Yorkers, many of them ex-slaves, challenged pervasive prejudice and performed plays, including Shakespearean productions, before mixed race audiences. Their audacity provoked feelings of excitement and hope among blacks, but often of disgust by many whites for whom the theater's existence epitomized the horrors of emancipation. Stories of Freedom in Black New York brilliantly intertwines black theater and urban life into a powerful interpretation of what the end of slavery meant for blacks, whites, and New York City itself. White's story of the emergence of free black culture offers a unique understanding of emancipation's impact on everyday life, and on the many forms freedom can take.