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Freedom Road

2000 Fiction
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Release : 2000
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 528/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Freedom Road by : Howard Fast

Download or read book Freedom Road written by Howard Fast. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Howard Fast makes superb use of his material. ... Aside from its social and historical implications, Freedom Road is a high-geared story, told with that peculiar dramatic intensity of which Fast is a master." -- Chicago Daily News

Freedom Road

2015-03-26 Political Science
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Release : 2015-03-26
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Freedom Road by : Howard Fast

Download or read book Freedom Road written by Howard Fast. This book was released on 2015-03-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Howard Fast makes superb use of his material. ... Aside from its social and historical implications, Freedom Road is a high-geared story, told with that peculiar dramatic intensity of which Fast is a master". -- Chicago Daily News

Along Freedom Road

2000-11-09 Social Science
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Release : 2000-11-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 735/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Along Freedom Road by : David S. Cecelski

Download or read book Along Freedom Road written by David S. Cecelski. This book was released on 2000-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement--the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county's black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community. Parents and students held nonviolent protests daily for five months, marched twice on the state capitol in Raleigh, and drove the Ku Klux Klan out of the county in a massive gunfight. The threatened closing of Hyde County's black schools collided with a rich and vibrant educational heritage that had helped to sustain the black community since Reconstruction. As other southern school boards routinely closed black schools and displaced their educational leaders, Hyde County blacks began to fear that school desegregation was undermining--rather than enhancing--this legacy. This book, then, is the story of one county's extraordinary struggle for civil rights, but at the same time it explores the fight for civil rights in all of eastern North Carolina and the dismantling of black education throughout the South.

Eliza's Freedom Road

2011-01-04 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2011-01-04
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 234/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Eliza's Freedom Road by : Jerdine Nolen

Download or read book Eliza's Freedom Road written by Jerdine Nolen. This book was released on 2011-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Award–winning author Jerdine Nolen imagines a young woman’s journey from slavery to freedom in this intimate and powerful novel that was named an ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults nominee. It is 1854 in Alexandria, Virginia. Eliza’s mother has been sold away and Eliza is left as a slave on a Virginia farm. It is Abbey, the cook, who looks after Eliza, when she isn’t taking care of the Mistress. Eliza has only the quilt her mother left her and the stories her mother told to keep her mother’s memory close. When the Mistress’s health begins to fail and Eliza overhears the Master talk of the Slave sale auction and of Eliza being traded, she takes to the night. She follows the path and the words of the farmhand Old Joe: “Travel the night. Sleep the day…Go east. Keep your back to the setting of the sun. Come to the safe house with a candlelight in the window…That gal, Harriet, she’ll take you.” All the while, Eliza recites the stories her mother taught her as she travels along her freedom road from Mary’s Land to Pennsylvania to Freedom’s Gate in St. Catharines, Canada, where she finds not only her freedom but also more than she could have hoped for.

Freedom Road

2014-08-19 History
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Release : 2014-08-19
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Freedom Road by : Ric Murphy

Download or read book Freedom Road written by Ric Murphy. This book was released on 2014-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FREEDOM ROAD is an historic account of Americas oldest recorded African American family, and their participation and rich contributions to American history over a four hundred year period. FREEDOM ROAD is a compilation of well-documented individual stories that begins in Africa in 1483, and from there, spans over fifteen generations and three continents, and definitively changes our understanding of American history, showcasing the significant role that one African American family has played from colonial American history to present day. This book is an exciting and compelling American saga that captivates readers with the story of the enslavement of John Gowen, one of the first Africans brought to America, and the first to be set free; the story of Thomas and Rebecca Cornell, forced to leave England because of their religious beliefs, and how they became known as the family of Presidents; and the story of the daring escape of Othello and Thomas Fraction from their cruel, vindictive slave master, himself the brother of a Confederacy Senator and the son of a Virginia governor. FREEDOM ROAD is enthralling, resounding, and evocative; it challenges the reader to have a better understanding of American history, and inspires them to learn about their own family history.

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