Author: Charles Andrew Taylor
Publisher: Open Hand Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780940880689
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Describes Juneteenth's origins and meaning as well as the ways it has been celebrated throughout its history, and presents related documents including the Emancipation Proclamation and the lyrics to "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the African-American national anthem.
Juneteenth
Author: Charles Andrew Taylor
Publisher: Open Hand Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780940880689
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Describes Juneteenth's origins and meaning as well as the ways it has been celebrated throughout its history, and presents related documents including the Emancipation Proclamation and the lyrics to "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the African-American national anthem.
Publisher: Open Hand Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780940880689
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Describes Juneteenth's origins and meaning as well as the ways it has been celebrated throughout its history, and presents related documents including the Emancipation Proclamation and the lyrics to "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the African-American national anthem.
All Different Now
Author: Angela Johnson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 068987376X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 068987376X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
Juneteenth for Mazie
Author: Floyd Cooper
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1515863387
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Mazie is ready to celebrate liberty. She is ready to celebrate freedom. She is ready to celebrate a great day in American history. The day her ancestors were no longer slaves. Mazie remembers the struggles and the triumph, as she gets ready to celebrate Juneteenth.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1515863387
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Mazie is ready to celebrate liberty. She is ready to celebrate freedom. She is ready to celebrate a great day in American history. The day her ancestors were no longer slaves. Mazie remembers the struggles and the triumph, as she gets ready to celebrate Juneteenth.
Juneteenth
Author: Muriel Miller Branch
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN: 9780525652229
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discusses the origin and present-day celebration of Juneteenth, a holiday marking the day, June 19, 1865, Texan slaves realized they were free.
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN: 9780525652229
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discusses the origin and present-day celebration of Juneteenth, a holiday marking the day, June 19, 1865, Texan slaves realized they were free.
O Freedom!
Author: William H. Jr Wiggins
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496653
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496653
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Celebration of Grace
Author: Joseph R. Cooke
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan
ISBN: 9780310529613
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan
ISBN: 9780310529613
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Oration by Frederick Douglass. Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1876, with an Appendix
Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385512875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385512875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
What Is Juneteenth?
Author: Kirsti Jewel
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593384717
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Discover more about Juneteenth, the important holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, a group of enslaved men, women, and children in Texas gathered around a Union solder and listened as he read the most remarkable words they would ever hear. They were no longer enslaved: they were free. The inhumane practice of forced labor with no pay was now illegal in all of the United States. This news was cause for celebration, so the group of people jumped in excitement, danced, and wept tears of joy. They did not know it at the time, but their joyous celebration of freedom would become a holiday--Juneteenth--that is observed each year by more and more Americans. Author Kirsti Jewel shares stories from Juneteenth celebrations, both past and present, and chronicles the history that led to the creation of this joyous day. With 80 black-and-white illustrations and an engaging 16-page photo insert, readers will be excited to read this latest addition to Who HQ!
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593384717
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Discover more about Juneteenth, the important holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, a group of enslaved men, women, and children in Texas gathered around a Union solder and listened as he read the most remarkable words they would ever hear. They were no longer enslaved: they were free. The inhumane practice of forced labor with no pay was now illegal in all of the United States. This news was cause for celebration, so the group of people jumped in excitement, danced, and wept tears of joy. They did not know it at the time, but their joyous celebration of freedom would become a holiday--Juneteenth--that is observed each year by more and more Americans. Author Kirsti Jewel shares stories from Juneteenth celebrations, both past and present, and chronicles the history that led to the creation of this joyous day. With 80 black-and-white illustrations and an engaging 16-page photo insert, readers will be excited to read this latest addition to Who HQ!
Spinoza's Book of Life
Author: Steven B. Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300128495
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Offering a new reading of Spinoza's masterpiece, Smith asserts that the 'Ethics' is a celebration of human freedom and its attendant joys and responsibilities and should be placed among the great founding documents of the Enlightenment.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300128495
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Offering a new reading of Spinoza's masterpiece, Smith asserts that the 'Ethics' is a celebration of human freedom and its attendant joys and responsibilities and should be placed among the great founding documents of the Enlightenment.
The Freedom to Read
Author: American Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description