They Walked To Freedom

Author : Kenneth M. Hare
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1596700106
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Walked to Freedom written by Kenneth M. Hare and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features interviews with participants, dozens of photographs from the time, and key historical documents, chronicling the Montgomery Bus Boycott that set the stage for the modern Civil Rights Era.

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780759521049
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Walk to Freedom written by Nelson Mandela and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.

Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0823421953
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom Walkers written by Russell Freedman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of the civil rights boycott that changed history by the foremost author of history for young people. Now a classic, Freedman’s book tells the dramatic stories of the heroes who stood up against segregation and Jim Crow laws in 1950s Alabama. Full of eyewitness reports, iconic photographs from the era, and crucial primary sources, this work brings history to life for modern readers. This engaging look at one of the best-known events of the American Civil Rights Movement feels immediate and relevant, reminding readers that the Boycott is not distant history, but one step in a fight for equality that continues today. Freedman focuses not only on well-known figures like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr., but on the numerous people who contributed by organizing carpools, joining protests, supporting legal defense efforts, and more. He showcases an often-overlooked side of activism and protest-- the importance of cooperation and engagement, and the ways in which ordinary people can stand up for their beliefs and bring about meaningful change in the world around them. Freedom Walkers has long been a library and classroom staple, but as interest in the history of protest and the Civil Rights Movement grows, it’s a perfect introduction for anyone looking to learn more about the past-- and an inspiration to take action and shape the future. Recipient of an Orbis Pictus Honor, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, and the Jane Addams Peace Association Honor Book Award, Freedom Walkers received five starred reviews. A map, source notes, full bibliography, and other backmatter is included.

Author : Mary Stanton
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604735414
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom Walk written by Mary Stanton and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, the streams of religious revival, racial strife, and cold-war politics were feeding the swelling river of social unrest in America. Marshaling massive forces, civil rights leaders were primed for a widescale attack on injustice in the South. By summer the conflict rose to great intensity as blacks and whites clashed in Birmingham. Outside the massive drive, Bill Moore, a white mail carrier, had made his own assault a few months earlier. Jeered and assailed as he made a solitary civil rights march along the Deep South highways, he was ridiculed by racists as a "crazy man." His well publicized purpose: to walk from Chattanooga to Jackson and hand-deliver a plea for racial tolerance to Ross Barnett, the staunchly segregationist governor of Mississippi. On April 23, on a highway near Attalla, Alabama, this lone crusader was shot dead. Although he was not a nobly ideal figure handpicked by shapers of the movement, inadvertently he became one of its earliest martyrs and, until now, part of an overlooked chapter in the history of the civil rights movement. Floyd Simpson, a grocer and a member of the Gadsden, Alabama chapter of the Ku Klux Koan, was charged with Moore's murder. A week later, a white college student named Sam Shirah led five black and five white volunteers into Alabama to finish Moore's walk. They were beaten and jailed. Four other attempts to complete the postman's quest were similarly stymied. Moore had kept a journal that detailed his goal. Using it, along with interviews and extensive newspaper and newsreel reports, Mary Stanton has documented this phenomenal freedom walk as seen through the eyes of Moore, Shirah, and the gunman, the three protagonists. Though all shared a deep love of the South, their strong feelings about who was entitled to walk its highways were in deadly conflict.

Author : Devon W. Carbado
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807069132
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Walk to Freedom written by Devon W. Carbado and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades—more than half of which have been long out of print. Told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, these narratives reveal the extraordinary and often innovative ways that these men and women sought freedom and demanded citizenship.

Author : Chris van Wyk
Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781529069297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Walk to Freedom written by Chris van Wyk and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official children's picture book edition of Nelson Mandela's internationally bestselling autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. Now reissued with a fresh cover look.Discover how a little boy whose father called him "troublemaker" grew up to fight apartheid, become South Africa's first black president, and campaign for freedom and justice around the world.Specially adapted for children by poet Chris van Wyk and illustrated by South African artist Paddy Bouma, with an introduction from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Long Walk to Freedom introduces children to the life of one of the world's most beloved and heroic leaders.

Author : Loretta Slaton
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595433618
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Walked to Freedom written by Loretta Slaton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of courage, determination, and the will to survive, this memoir recounts the life of Chinese refugee student Loretta Slaton who lived in Japan-occupied Hong Kong during World War II. Shortly after the Japanese occupation began in Hong Kong, a group of Chinese college students from Hong Kong University, Slaton among them, left home and ventured west to try and live in Free China. Separated from her family and trying to avoid the Japanese Army, she traveled west to Kweilin, north to Chengtu, and eventually ended up in Kunming, part of Free China. Slaton worked as a secretary for the Office of War Information in Kunming, and soon met an American officer, Clyde Slaton, the man she would eventually marry. For years, Slaton feared for her family's fate. When she returned to Hong Kong in September of 1945, she was overjoyed to learn that her entire family had survived. But Slaton's days of adventure were far from over. She traveled to America with her husband, and his service with the Foreign Service arm of the United States Information Agency took them to numerous Asian countries for the next several years. We Walked to Freedom explores the strength of the human spirit and the power of one woman's will to forge a bright future.

Author : Sebastian Junger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982153423
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom written by Sebastian Junger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe"--

Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312661053
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claudette Colvin written by Phillip Hoose and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'" - Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history. Claudette Colvin is the National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, a Newbery Honor Book, A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book.

Author : Slavomir Rawicz
Publisher : LP, Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781493022618
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Walk written by Slavomir Rawicz and published by LP, Lyons Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.