Freedom's Daughters

Freedom's Daughters

Author: Lynne Olson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0684850125

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Provides portraits and cameos of over sixty women who were influential in the Civil Rights Movement, and argues that the political activity of women has been the driving force in major reform movements throughout history.


Freedom's Children

Freedom's Children

Author: Ellen S. Levine

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2000-12-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1101076178

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In this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-to sit in an all-white restaurant and demand to be served, to refuse to give up a seat at the front of the bus, to be among the first to integrate the public schools, and to face violence, arrest, and even death for the cause of freedom. "Thrilling...Nothing short of wonderful."-The New York Times Awards: ( A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year ( A Booklist Editors' Choice


Freedom

Freedom

Author: Jaycee Dugard

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-07-11

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1501147633

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"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.


Liberty's Daughters

Liberty's Daughters

Author: Mary Beth Norton

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780801483479

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Explores the lives of colonial women, particularly during the Revolutionary War years, arguing that eighteenth-century Americans had very clear notions of appropriate behavior for females and the functions they were expected to perform, and that most women suffered from low self-esteem, believing themselves inferior to men.


Freedom's Children

Freedom's Children

Author: Colin A. Palmer

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1469611694

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Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica


Freedom in the Family

Freedom in the Family

Author: Tananarive Due

Publisher: One World

Published: 2009-04-02

Total Pages: 597

ISBN-13: 0307525341

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Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships, its nameless foot soldiers, and its achievements—and an incisive examination of the future of justice in this country. Their mother-daughter journey spanning two generations of struggles is an unforgettable story.


Freedom's Child

Freedom's Child

Author: Carrie Allen McCray

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781565121867

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When Carrie Allen McCray was a child, she was afraid to ask about the framed photograph of a white man on her mother's dresser. Years later she learned that he was her grandfather, a Confederate general, and that her grandmother was a former slave. In her late seventies, Carrie McCray went searching for her history and found the remarkable story of her mother, Mary, the illegitimate daughter of General J. R. Jones, of Lynchburg, Virginia. Jones would later be cast out of Lynchburg society for publicly recognizing his daughter. FREEDOM'S CHILD is a loving remembrance of how Mary spent her life beating down the kind of thinking that ostracized her father. She was a leader in the founding of the NAACP and hosted the likes of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois as they plotted the war against discrimination at her kitchen table. Carrie McCray's memories reward us with an extraordinarily vivid and intimate portrait of a remarkable woman. "Highly recommended for all readers."--Library Journal, hot pick; "I defy anyone to finish FREEDOM'S CHILD without a tear in their eye, a sense of meeting a great spirit, and an inspiration to act with generosity and justice."--Gloria Steinem; A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB and QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB SELECTION.


Freedom River

Freedom River

Author: Doreen Rappaport

Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1630831301

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Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.


Child of the Civil Rights Movement

Child of the Civil Rights Movement

Author: Paula Young Shelton

Publisher: Dragonfly Books

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 0385376065

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In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chapter in America’s history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family—and thousands of others—in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery. Poignant, moving, and hopeful, this is an intimate look at the birth of the Civil Rights Movement.


All Different Now

All Different Now

Author: Angela Johnson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-05-06

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 068987376X

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In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.