Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years - Hardcover

Osborne, Linda Barrett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1419700200 ISBN 13: 9781419700200

Verlag: Abrams, 2012

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"A detailed and thought-provoking account of segregation" including photos and first-person stories illustrating life in the Jim Crow era (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Told through unforgettable first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years. Multiple perspectives are examined as the book looks at the impact of legal segregation and discrimination on the day-to-day life of black and white Americans across the country. Complete with a bibliography and an index, it is both an engrossing read and an important addition to black history books for young people.

"A valuable and comprehensive perspective on American race relations." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Readers will come away moved, saddened, troubled by this stain on their country's past and filled with abiding respect for those who fought and overcame. Osborne expertly guides readers through this painful, turbulent time of segregation, enabling them to understand fully the victims' struggles and triumphs as they worked courageously to set things right." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"The text is elegant and understated. Drawing on personal interviews, the author provides incidents of everyday racism that young people will be able to grasp and relate to immediately." --School Library Journal (starred review)

"Tight, consistent focus, pristine organization, and eminently browsable illustrations make this middle-school offering a strong recommendation." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"A well-written chronicle of the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. The reader will be quickly engaged." --Library Media Connection

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Linda Barrett Osborne is the author of Guardians of Liberty, Traveling the Freedom Road, Miles to Go for Freedom, This Land Is Our Land, and Come On In, America. She was a senior writer-editor in the Library of Congress Publishing Office for 15 years. She lives in Washington, DC.

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This book chronicles the lives of Black Americans from the years 1896 until 1954. It discusses the forces leading to legal segregation; specific segregation laws, federal policy and segregation on a national level; and, early efforts to achieve civil rights. Through photographs and other images, primary sources, and first person accounts, it also looks at the impact of legal segregation on day-to-day life for both black and white Americans, across the country, not just the South and North, particularly from a young person's point of view. The book is distinguished by the Library of Congress' involvement and is a companion of sorts to Linda's previous book "Travelling the Freedom Road", which looked at the lives of black Americans from 1800 to 1877. The book includes a timeline, bibliography, and an index.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Abrams
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1419700200
• ISBN 13: 9781419700200
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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