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Milestone Documents in African American History
Exploring the Essential Primary Sources
By Finkelman, Paul
- ISBN
- 978-1-93530-605-4
- Publisher
- Schlager Group
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2010
Gr 8-Up One hundred and twenty-five speeches, documents, and chapters or passages from longer works are fully analyzed in this collection of selected primary sources. Coverage includes John Rolfe's casual mention in correspondence of "20 and odd Negroes" delivered as indentured servants in 1619; President Obama's address to the 2009 NAACP Centennial Convention; the "Ohio Black Code"; the wrenching "Confessions of Nat Turner"rom the 1831 pamphlet authored by Thomas Ruffin Gray; Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" address; and Clarence Thomas's acid "concurrence/d...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
