Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California

Stanley, Jerry

ISBN 10: 0517800969 ISBN 13: 9780517800966

Verlag: Crown Pub, 2000

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Book by Stanley Jerry

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Period photos and illustration enhance this factual tale about the African Americans who took part in the California Gold Rush with a profile on one businessman, Mifflin Gibbs, who became famous for taking a stand for his civil rights.

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first time in a book for young readers is the story of the African American forty-niners who went west to seek fortunes and
freedom in the California Gold Rush.

Among the thousands drawn west by the California Gold Rush were many African Americans. Some were free men and women in search of opportunity; others were slaves brought from the slave states of the South. Some found freedom and wealth in the gold fields and growing cities of California, but all faced the deeply entrenched prejudices of the era.

To tell this story Hurry Freedom! focuses on the life of Mifflin Gibbs, who arrived in San Francisco in 1850 and established a successful boot and shoe business. But Gibbs's story is more than one of business and personal success: With other African American San Franciscans, he led a campaign to obtain equal legal and civil rights for Blacks in California.

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• Verlag: Crown Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0517800969
• ISBN 13: 9780517800966
• Einband: Encuadernación de biblioteca
• Anzahl der Seiten: 85