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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
Gr 7-Up The African-American experience, from 1619 to the present, is fraught with turbulence and terror, joy and heartache. Still, it is difficult for those born after the Civil Rights Movement to understand fully what that period was all about. These two books can help to inform that understanding. The first one looks at the event that is thought by many to have ignited the Civil Rights Movement itself. The mur...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
These books are informative and well structured, and each includes a thorough set of source notes and appended resources. The formal, fact-filled exposition is occasionally interrupted by jarring omniscient...Log In or Sign Up to Read More