Forty Acres

Forty Acres PDF Author: Dwayne Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476730539
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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"A thriller about a Black society with a secret"--

Forty Acres

Forty Acres PDF Author: Dwayne Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476730539
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Book Description
"A thriller about a Black society with a secret"--

Forty Acres and a Fool

Forty Acres and a Fool PDF Author: Roger Welsch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616738013
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Children of the Fire

Children of the Fire PDF Author: Harriette Gillem Robinet
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439137072
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Eleven-year-old Hallelujah is fascinated by the fires burning all over the city of Chicago. Little does she realize that her life will be changed forever by the flames that burn with such bright fascination for her. The year is 1871 and this event will later be called the Great Chicago Fire. Hallelujah and her newfound friend Elizabeth are as different as night and day; but their shared solace will bind them as friends forever, as a major American city starts to rebuild itself.

The March

The March PDF Author: E. L. Doctorow
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN: 0375506713
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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In the last years of the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman marched 60,000 Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, cutting a 60-mile wide swath of pillage and destruction. That event comes back in this magisterial novel. High school & older.

Educational Reconstruction

Educational Reconstruction PDF Author: Hilary N. Green
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823270130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created, developed, and sustained a system of African American schools following the Civil War. Hilary Green proposes a new chronology in understanding postwar African American education, examining how urban African Americans demanded quality public schools from their new city and state partners. Revealing the significant gains made after the departure of the Freedmen’s Bureau, this study reevaluates African American higher education in terms of developing a cadre of public school educator-activists and highlights the centrality of urban African American protest in shaping educational decisions and policies in their respective cities and states.

China

China PDF Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780778792994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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New Topics: The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangzi, is the world's largest. Construction has displaced many people but it is hoped the dam will tame the river's annual floods and provide hydro-electric power. China's booming economy and the reforms that have happened in the past 10 years. The status of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Walking to the Bus-rider Blues

Walking to the Bus-rider Blues PDF Author: Harriette Robinet
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689831919
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Twelve-year-old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister, and their grandmother struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in the summer of 1956.

The Hired Girl

The Hired Girl PDF Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763679437
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan’s journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.

Freedom's Shore

Freedom's Shore PDF Author: Russell Duncan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820362050
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Cause

Cause PDF Author: Tonya Bolden
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307792889
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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After the destruction of the Civil War, the United States faced the immense challenge of rebuilding a ravaged South and incorporating millions of freed slaves into the life of the nation. On April 11, 1865, President Lincoln introduced his plan for reconstruction, warning that the coming years would be “fraught with great difficulty.” Three days later he was assassinated. The years to come witnessed a time of complex and controversial change.