This exciting series provides students with gracefully written narratives about important aspects of the black experience in the United States. Blending original documents written by participants and observers with an insightful analysis of different periods in American history, each volume provides young readers with an understanding of the broad issues that this country faced as well as the daily struggles of ordinary African-American men and women.Quotations and information from primary sources, historical drawings, photographs, and maps lend immediacy to every narrative and an up-to-date bibliography and detailed index enhance the reference value of each volume.
Filled with voices of hope and courage, Journey to Freedom reveals the stories of the men and women who went looking for freedom, dignity, equal rights, and basic economic opportunity up north. Coverage also relates the far-reaching social, economic, and political consequences for the nation as a whole during this greatest internal mass migration of people in American history.
- ISBN10 0816034133
- ISBN13 9780816034130
- Publish Date 15 June 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 June 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Facts On File Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 131
- Language English