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A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography Of Race In America From Ona Judge To Barack Obama
Calkins Creek
ISBN13:
9781662680663
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This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicles the diverse ways each fought racism and shows how muchand how littlehas changed for Black Americans since our countrys founding. Full of daring escapes, deep emotion, and subtle lessons on how racism operates, A LONG TIME COMING reveals the universal importance of its subjects struggles for justice. From freedom seeker Ona Judge, who fled her enslavement by Americas first president, to Barack Obama, the first Black president, all of Shepards protagonists fight valiantly for justice for themselves and all Black Americans in any way that they can. But it is also a highly personal book, as Shepard whose maternal grandfather was enslaved shows how the grand sweep of history has touched his life, reflecting on how much progress has been made against racism, while also exhorting readers to complete the vast work that remains to be done.
- | Author: Ray Anthony Shepard
- | Publisher: Calkins Creek
- | Publication Date: Aug 08, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 336 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 166268066X
- | ISBN-13: 9781662680663
- Author:
- Ray Anthony Shepard
- Publisher:
- Calkins Creek
- Publication Date:
- Aug 08, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 336 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 166268066X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781662680663