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Author
Series
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
41 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States.
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 590 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiii, 343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work constitutes a history of our time as rendered by the pen of a singular and indispensable black woman journalist....
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Spanish-language edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cuando a una estudiante se le asigna el trabajo de completar un árbol familiar y solo puede contar tres generaciones atrás, Abuela junta a toda la familia y la estudiante aprende que hace 400 años, en 1619, sus antepasados fueron robados y traídos a los Estados Unidos por esclavizadores europeos. Pero antes de eso, ellos tenían un hogar, una tierra, un idioma. La estudiante aprende cómo la gente que dice haber nacido sobre el agua sobrevivió."--
Stymied...
Publisher
Hearst Home
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presenting interviews with more than fifty members of the oldest generation of Black Americans, including civil rights activists, hometown heroes, celebrities and many others, this testament to the strength and stories behind these individuals reveals their lives, experiences, and wisdom.