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Heroes of Black History (A TIME for Kids Book) : Biographies of Four Great Americans by The Editors of TIME for Kids is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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TIME For Kids Heroes of Black History presents the stories of four great American heroes every child should know about in one volume: Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and Barack Obama. Featuring an introduction by journalist and civil rights activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Heroes of Black History shines a light on the long fight for social justice in the United States as it highlights the accomplishments and personal histories of these four pivotal Americans. Young readers learn about the life of Harriet Tubman-born a slave around 1820, she escaped to the North, but returned to the South nineteen times as a conductor on the Underground Railroad to lead 300 slaves to freedom. An incredibly gifted athlete, Jackie Robinson endured taunts, slurs, and death threats when he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus in 1955 and paved the way for a Supreme Court decision that declared segregation on Alabama's public buses was unconstitutional. On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama took the oath of office as our country's first African American president. Illustrated with a dynamic mix of pho

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Author

The Editors of TIME for Kids

Publisher

Liberty Street

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781683309437

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Memoir, Fiction