African American Childhoods: Historical Perspectives from Slavery to Civil Rights

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In African American Childhoods, historian Wilma King presents a selection of her essays, both unpublished and published, which together provide a much-needed survey of more than three centuries of African American children's experiences. Organized chronologically, the volume uses the Civil War to divide the book into two parts: part one addresses the enslavement of children in Africa and explores how they lived in antebellum America; part two examines the issues affecting black children since the Civil War and into the twenty-first century.nbsp; Topics include the impact of the social and historical construction of race on their development, the effects of violence, and the heroic efforts of African American children when subjected to racism at its worst during the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks (Childhood of Famous Americans)

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Rosa Parks By: Kathleen Kudlinski

Rosa Parks (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Kathleen Kudlinski
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ASIN: 0689839251

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Rosa Parks By: Kathleen Kudlinski.......2004-10-12

Crated By: Bryan Garcia

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks grew up with her mother, brother, and her grandparents. Rosa had problems in school, her tonsils usually got infected not allowing her to speak loud. This infection made Rosa get left back in the fifth grade. She walks to school with her brother (Sylvester). Rosa loved sewing. It was her hobby. Rosa also had to deal with alot of segregation. White schools were better than black school. White schools had better books, buses and buildings than black schools. Some white people called black people many diferent names just because there different than them. Some white people got along with black people, and will be treated differently because of this.
After the civil war ended, some white people made the Ku Klux Klan, or the KKK to scare different cultures. In Halloween the Ku Klux Klan tried to kill other cultures. That was their treat for Halloween. That just makes me mad to know that this happen. Rosa's family wanted to move back to Afica. Her family own a farm. They sell there products to have money. Rosa's family was very poor. Her grand parents were slaves. Rosa wanted to stop segregation. Segregation started with the Jim Crow Laws.
Rosa was determined to finish school. Rosa's grandmother pasted away, it hurt Rosa's heart. It was a hard time for Rosa . She had a job to do, her mother was sick, and her grandmother past away. She quit school to support her family. There was one thing that made her happy, church. She went so many times to church people called her Sister Rosa.
Rosa fell in love with a man named Raymond Parks. Raymond was apart of the NAACP which stands for National Association for the Advancement of colored people. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People want to stop segregation. In 1931, Rosa, and Raymond got married in Rosa's hometown, Pine Level. She went back to school to get her high school diploma. Raymond worked in a barbers shop. The NAACP tried to stop segregation in a violent way. They wanted to fight to make things better, and that was wrong.
They also are trying to free the Scottboro boys. These boys were framed of abusing a white women, and beating her up. There was no cuts, or signs of abusement.The boys were still found guilty, and sentence to death.It was a all white jury, and there was no evidence, but they were still found guilty. There was an another trial, and it was fair. Five of the boys went to jail, and the rest were free to go.
Rosa Parks went on a bus one day. The bus was crowded in the back. So Rosa Parks sat in the white section. The driver said "get out of the bus." Rosa refused to get off. When she was forced to get off the bus. She looked at the driver and never wanted to go on a bus with him as the driver again.
She met Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. in a lecture. Rosa Parks was shocked on how he spoke. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke so calm, and peaceful. His speeches were like poems.Rosa Parks went to Highlander Folk school. Her friend Virgina Durr was the woman who told her about the school. She helped her, and she was a white women who thought everyone should be treated the same. In this school she was taught freedom fighter how to change the law. She learn how to organize crowds, how to use papers, and radio to get publicity. Her teachers taught Rosa, do not get violent, just resist.
Twelve years after the first bus problem another bus incident happened. Rosa Park was tired, and went on the bus not looking at the driver. She sat next to a black person. The next two stops a lot of white people came in the bus. The bus was crowded. There was one white person left standing. Rosa Parks was told to move, but did not move at all. Police had to come, and get her out the bus. A lot of people left the bus avoiding conflict. Rosa Parks was put under arrest. This started the Bus Boy Cott.
The person who organized the Bus Boy Cott was Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. Black people did not get back on the bus until black people were able to sit anywhere, and Rosa Parks was free. They walked for one year, and sixteen days, until December 20th, the bus companies agreed on the law.Also they agreed because the buses were losing money. Rosa Parks was free! It did not stop there. Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. made "The March on Washington". There he gave is "I Have A Dream Speech". Many people united as one, black and white people.
Now Rosa Parks is in the National Association for the Advancement of Color people. She is still fighting for equal rights.Rosa Parks worked hard, but never became leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Color People. It was hard being a woman in the 1990's. Women get no repect. Rosa Parks also work as a youth council leader. She worked with the youth to intergrate the public library. She got the Presidentional Medal of Freedom from President Clinton. Rosa Parks will live on forever.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a Dream (Childhood of Famous Americans Series.)

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a Dream (Childhood of Famous Americans Series.)
Dharathula H. Millender
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ASIN: 0020420102

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One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into history.

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Mary Winstead grew up in Minneapolis, captivated by her fathers tales of his boyhood in rural Mississippi. As a child, she visited her relatives down South, and her nostalgia for that world and its people would compel her to collect her fathers stories for her own children. But Winsteads research into her family history led her to a series of horrifying revelations: about her relatives ingrained racism, their involvement with the Klan, and their connection to the infamous 1964 murders of three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney.Writing with dignity, humility, and a profound sense of time and place, Winstead chronicles her awakening to painful truths about people she loved and thought she knew. She profiles her father, a man of remarkable charm and secretiveness. She traces her familys roots through post-Civil War poverty, Southern pride, and Jim Crow laws, exploring racism on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Most movingly, she details her own inner war, a battle between her love for her family and their untenable beliefs and practices.

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Wildly n-integrated Story.......2007-09-19

I was riveted with the stories Ms. Winstead's father told, and her trips South. For that alone, the book is worth something, also for some insights into isolation of Northern suburban living, something I could relate to, growing up in similar protected surroundings.

But the story all became confusing and I became as confused as she was, about all of the issues and it all turned into a muddle. I did not see the story lines integrated well; the jumps between her personal crises, the family stories and the stories of the murders in Neshoba County all remained separate and jarring, - not fully integrated at all. She has a lot to say about these things, but she is not saying them well, giving each half the treatment they deserve. Maybe this should really be 2 or 3 books.

Excellent personal account.......2006-08-25

Living in Minnesota, Mary Winstead becomes fascinated by her father's stories of growing up in Mississippi in the 1920s and 1930s. Deciding that she must preserve these stories, she digs a little deeper into the Southern side of her family, who reside in and near Philadelphia, Mississippi, site of the infamous 1964 murders of three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, J.E. Chaney and Michael Schwerner.

She is welcomed warmely, until she gets close to the family secret: They are related to Edgar Ray Killen, the alleged mastermind behind the murders, who at the time of the writing (about 2001, 35 years later) had not yet faced murder charges.

Part personal memoir, part history of the murders, this book explores Winstead's travels to Mississippi and family relations, starting from her childhood, to the present day. It also delves into her personal coming to terms with her family's past and struggles with keeping and perpetuating family secrets and honoring a culture of silence that she cannot subscribe to.

I grew up in the upper midwest and now live not far from Philadelphia, MS. I think Winstead has accurately captured the attitudes of both cultures, and she has wonderfully voiced her inner struggle.

This book was written before the 2005 conviction of Killen on three counts of manslaughter. But, as Winstead said, the book isn't really about civil rights, it's about her family, so perhaps the conviction doesn't matter for the purposes of this book.

A very fine book..........2006-01-11

This was a good memior of her life
and her family history.
Mrs.Winstead's courage in writing
this book is to be applauded.
All Americans should read this book.
By the way,I got a chance to talk
to the author via phone.
She was friendly and cordial.

A waste of my precious time.......2004-05-27

I chose to read this book because I thought that Ms. Winstead was going to write about the slayings of the Civil Rights Workers (Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney, and Michael Henry Schwerner). She did, but a little less than 1/3 of her book was actually about their slayings and how her great uncle was involved with the slayings.

I was really very disappointed. She talked mostly about her racist family that lived in the state of Mississippi and the 'N' word was used way too much.

If you haven't purchased this book yet, good..if you did...oh well!!!

Hint (If this book was so good, then why are so many people selling theirs?)...

Thank You.

Hard to put down.......2002-10-07

I found Back to Mississippi a book that was hard to put down, unexpectedly so. From the beginning of the book you know that the story to be told is of the murder of three civil rights' workers and a family's denial of those murders. At the same time this is a personal story of discovery and loss that really pulls the reader in. There are three themes in this memoir: the writer's Catholic upbringing in the north, the delightful discovery of a warm and loving family in the south, and the historical record of the bitter civil rights struggle in Mississippi. As the book progresses there there is an increasing feeling of foreboding of the connection between the family stories and the brutal murders of the civil rights' workers. This foreboding, good stories, and pertinent historical detail made this book more than worth the read. Also, it left me wanting to know more about this period and the concealment of the violence perpeptrated then.

The Making Of A Civil Rights Leader (Hispanic Civil Rights)

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The Making Of A Civil Rights Leader (Hispanic Civil Rights)
Jose Angel Gutierrez
Manufacturer: Arte Publico Press
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Born in 1944, José Angel Gutiérrez grew up in a time when Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas and the Southwest attended separate schools and avoided public facilities and restaurants that were designated "Whites Only." Despite the limits of segregation and rural culture in Texas, the passion to learn and to educate others, as well as to undo injustice, burned in his belly from an early age. Gutiérrez offers portraits of his early influences, from his father's own pursuit of knowledge and political involvement, to his Mexican pre-school teacher's dedication to bilingual-bicultural education which did not exist in public schools at that time, and to his mother's courage and persistence, taking up migrant field work to provide for her family after the death of young Gutiérrez's father.

In this intensely narrated memoir, Gutiérrez details his rise from being beaten down by racist political and agricultural interests in South Texas to his leadership role in the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Complemented by photos from his personal archives, Gutiérrez recalls his struggle for education, his early baptism in grass-roots political organizing, and his success in creating one of history's most successful third party movements, La Raza Unida Party.

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Frankye Regis recounts her childhood as a black girl growing up in rural segregated Mississippi during the 1960s and '70s. She was a farmer's daughter, one of eight children, who spent her summer vacations picking cotton in her father's fields. She wouldn't dare look a white person in the eye if she passed one on the street. Her high school was not integrated until 1980, 25 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision stated segregated schools were illegal. Throughout her first-person memoir, Regis provides the history of the civil rights movement in an accessible manner to help students place the personal narrative in historical context. Original and historical photographs are provided to help readers better understand the experience of being in someone else's shoes. This is the third book in a new series, Voices of Twentieth Century Conflict, directed towards high school students. Each story in this series is told through personal vignettes and reflections that chronicle the life and times of the author with historical context unifying and clarifying the events. The lively writing style and engaging stories help history come alive for students learning about Civil Rights. Also included are a series foreword, timeline, glossary, and Questions for Discussion and Reflection for each chapter. Also available in this series are A Voice from the Holocaust and A Voice from the Vietnam War.

Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-Rights Movement

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Beautiful!!!
2 little girls in the Selma civil rights movement

Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-Rights Movement
Sheyann Webb
Manufacturer: Univ of Alabama Pr (T)
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ASIN: 0817300317

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Beautiful!!!.......1999-05-06

I have read this book over a decade ago, and saw the movie on Tv, and I enjoyed both very well. These children were fearless in the face of danger, and to me,that is awesome.

2 little girls in the Selma civil rights movement.......1999-01-29

A moving as-told-to account of the experiences of 2 brave little girls in the days of the Selma civil rights movement. As adult women, they recall their involvement as children in the stirring church meetings and the marches, their relationship with Martin Luther King Jr., and themurders of 2 white Northern clergyman. Stirring, inspirational, deeply moving.

Just For You! Singing For Dr. King (Just For You)

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Nice book for young children.

Just For You! Singing For Dr. King (Just For You)
Angela Medearis
Manufacturer: Teaching Resources
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ASIN: 0439568552

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In 1965, a young girl helped change America by singing and marching for civil rights with Dr. Martin Luther King. This is her story.

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Nice book for young children........2004-07-11

there are many better books out there but this one should involve young children and beginning readers. A nice book fot the teacher's collection.

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Children: Rights and Childhood (Ideas)
David Archard
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 041508251X

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In Children, David Archard challenges the idea that childhood is a period of little reason and limited freedom. He surveys arguments for and against the rights of children, and explores the role that should be played in the rearing of children both by the government and by their own parents. Archard contests the idea that natural parents have obvious rights over their own children, and reaches a definitive position on the rights children should have and the ways in which they should be protected.

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