The 71-day occupation of the village at Wounded Knee - February 27 to May 8, 1973 - is a watershed event in the chronology of American Indian activism, because it reflects both the height of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the beginning of the end of the power of that organization. It was at Wounded Knee Village where government forces surrounded a small, poorly armed band of AIM members who were protesting the death of Raymond Yellow Thunder and Wesley Bad Heart Bull and the subsequent c...
Viewpoints and Perspectives (Set) (Perspectives Library: Viewpoints and Perspectives)
Lily's Victory Garden (Tales of Young Americans)
by Helen L Wilbur
Lily gets permission to plant a Victory Garden at the house next door, where the Bishops' son has died in the war, and slowly the garden helps Mrs. Bishop recover from her grief.
Childhood memoirs of three black women--grandmother, mother, and daughter-who grew up between the 1880's and the 1950's
MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Their names stand for the quest for justice and equality.Martin grew up in a loving family in the American South, at a time when this country was plagued by racial discrimination. He aimed to put a stop to it. He became a minister like his daddy, and he preached and marched for his cause.Abraham grew up in a loving family many years earlier, in a Europe that did not welcome Jews. He found a new home in America, where he became a respected rabbi...
Blitzkrieg! Hitler's Lightning War (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times)
by Earle Rice
The reference value of every book in this se ries, of which Civil Rights Leaders is a part, is greatly en hanced by the inclusion of chronologies & further reading li sts & a concise introduction to the general subject of the b ook. '
Eyewitness to World War I Medicine (Eyewitness to World War I)
by Emily O'Keefe
The Cold War Years (Making of America) (Making of America (Raintree))
by Dale Anderson
Relates the story of immigration to America through the voices and stories of those who passed through Ellis Island, from its opening in 1892 to the release of the last detainee in 1954.
The Story of the Little Rock Nine and School Desegregation in Photographs (Story of the Civil Rights Movement in Photographs)
by David Aretha
America Into a New Millennium (Making of America) (Making of America (Raintree))
by Dale Anderson
SPORTS IN AMERICA: 2000 TO 2009 (Sports in America: Decade by Decade)
1945-1976, America Today (Basic illustrated history of America)
by Naunerle C. Farr
Discusses the break-in at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. in 1972 and the events which unfolded thereafter resulting in the downfall of a president and a distrust of government.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 (American Workers)
by Ruth H Maxwell and Donna Getzinger
The Empire State Building (Lightning Bolt Books (R) -- Famous Places) (Lightning Bolt Books Famous Places)
by Lisa Bullard
