Now is your time! : the African-American struggle for freedom / Walter Dean Myers.

Author/creator Myers, Walter Dean
Format Book
Edition1st Harper Trophy ed.
Publication InfoNew York : HarperTrophy, 1991.
Descriptionxi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

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.
Abstract 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.
General noteOriginally published: 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1991.
General noteWinner of the 1992 Coretta Scott King Award.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [278]-281) and index.
LCCN 91000314
ISBN0064461203 (pbk.)
ISBN9780064461207 (pbk.)

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