Cover Image

Now is your time! : the African-American struggle for freedom

A history of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality, beginning with the capture of Africans in 1619, continuing through the American Revolution, the Civil War, and into contemporary times.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperCollins, ©1991.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects and Genres:
African Americans > History > Juvenile literature.
Literature.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • The Land
  • Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima
  • The Plantation Society
  • To Make a Slave
  • The United States of America!
  • James Forten
  • We the People ...
  • To Be a Slave
  • Fighting Back
  • George Latimer
  • The Dred Scott Case
  • John Brown
  • Secession
  • The Bower
  • We Look Like Men of War
  • Fort Wagner
  • The First Taste of Freedom
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Lewis Howard Latimer
  • The Battle in the Courts
  • Meta Vaux Warrick
  • Brown vs. Board of Education
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Modern Civil Rights Movement.

Need Help?

Search Tips Research By Mail Contact the Library

Similar Items