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(0)Tonya Bolden
Author
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they set out on Sherman's long march through Georgia during the Civil War. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them forever and that freedom lies ahead. When she meets Caleb, an enigmatic young black man also on the march, Mariah soon finds herself dreaming not only of a new life, but of true love as well. But even hope comes at a cost, and as the...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
1140L
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Capital Days spans more than sixty years of American history, highlighting a period of immense change in our country and its capital, much of it witnessed by Michael Shiner, a true American original who lived in Washington, D.C. [from approximately 1804 to 1880]. Born enslaved but eventually able to secure his freedom, the bold and daring Shiner, who worked at the Washington Navy Yard for many years, left behind a journal in which he recounted numerous...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a mail carrier, Victor Hugo Green traveled across New Jersey every day. But with Jim Crow laws enforcing segregation since the late 1800s, traveling as a Black person in the US could be stressful, even dangerous. So in the 1930s, Victor created a guide--The Negro Motorist Green-Book--compiling information on where to go and what places to avoid so that Black travelers could have a safe and pleasant time. While the Green Book started out small,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
1140L
Physical Desc
vii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Coretta Scott King Honor winner Bolden sheds light on new research and interpretations of one of America's most influential African Americans. She focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon. In chronicling his shortcomings and the low points in his life as well as his victories, Bolden creates a portrait of this relentless warrior as a speaker, a once-enslaved abolitionist, but most importantly, as a human being.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Under a radiant moon and surrounded by all the noises of the city at night, a little boy prays for those in need, for wars to end, for the sick to be healed, and for all the members of his family"--
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
1160L
Physical Desc
vii, 120 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A commemorative introduction to the Emancipation Proclamation provides excerpts from historical sources, reproductions of archival images, and lesser-known facts that challenge popular beliefs.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1150L
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles sixteen high-achieving African Americans, including magician Richard Potter, concert singer Sissieretta Jones, and architect Paul R. Williams.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
1190L
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
This Coretta Scott King Honor Book provides a much-needed window into a little-documented time in black history. The poignant story, based on the memoir of Maritcha Rémond Lyons, shows what it was like to be a black child born free and living in New York City in the mid-1800s.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
1130L
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The first African men, women, and children in colonial America did not arrive with dreams of freedom or hopes of a new, better life. They arrived after a torturous 90-day journey called the Middle Passage. And they arrived as slaves. Since that time, African-Americans have suffered, triumphed, despaired, and dreamed. Through U.S. history, nowhere are the hopes and fears of the black experience expressed more convincingly than on the faces of black...
11) Finding family
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised in Charleston, West Virginia, at the turn of the twentieth century by her grandfather and aunt on off-putting tales of family members she has never met, twelve-year-old Delana is shocked when, after Aunt Tilley dies, she learns the truth about her parents and some of her other relatives.
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author Tonya Bolden chronicles the life of an intrepid lawyer and civil rights pioneer. Dovey Johnson Roundtree was most famous for her successful defense of an indigent Black man accused of the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a prominent white Washington, DC, socialite, in 1965. Despite her triumph in this high-profile case, Roundtree continued to represent the poor and the underserved. She was the first lawyer to...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
"This is a story about America and the shaping of its democratic values during the Reconstruction era, one of our country's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In this stirring account of the Civil War, emancipation, and the struggle for rights and reunion that followed, one of the premier US scholars delivers a book that is as illuminating as it is timely. Real-life accounts of heroism, grit, betrayal, and bravery drive this book's narrative,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the 1914 disappearance of eleven-year-old Sarah Rector, an African American who was part of the Creek Indian people and whose land had made her wealthy, and what it reveals about race, money, and American society.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
NC 1040L
Physical Desc
41 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrated with historical artifacts and photographs, a fresh look at a pioneering American innovator traces Carver's life, discoveries, and legacy as the first African-American to attend Iowa State College and as an inspirational conservationist.