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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Up from Slavery” is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington (1856—1915). The book describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved as a child during the Civil War, the obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, and his work establishing vocational schools like the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help Black people and other persecuted people of color learn useful, marketable...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
Author
Publisher
Axios for Young People
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
ix, 170 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of Native Americans, from the Stone age migrants, to the more advanced tribes of North America, to the first encounters with white Europeans, describing the culture, everyday life, and artifacts of the native peoples.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
496 pages 1.2" H x 9.3" L x 7.4" W
Language
English
Description
When the Hart-Celler Act passed in 1965, opening up US immigration to non-Europeans, it ushered in a whole new era. But even to the first generation of Asian Americans born in the US after that milestone, it would have been impossible to imagine that sushi and boba would one day be beloved by all, that a Korean boy band named BTS would be the biggest musical act in the world, that one of the most acclaimed and popular movies of 2018 would be Crazy...
10) Dutch Americans
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, culture and religion of the Dutch, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.
11) Irish Americans
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Irish, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st Vintage classics ed.
Physical Desc
717 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arranged chronologically, a comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Hughes contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form and commentary by Hughes's biographer.
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
320 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Organized by language group within broad geographical areas of the North American continent, this book presents authoritative description of the Native American peoples from the Arctic Circle to the Rio Grande.
15) Angela's ashes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
330 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an insider chronicle of the history of Indian reservations and contemporary Native American life, highlighting misunderstood issues and examining the historical tensions between Native Americans and the U.S. government.