Record details

• ISBN: 0195141180
• ISBN: 9780195141184
• Physical Description: 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
• Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Published in association with the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, and the National Parks Foundation"--title page verso.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Jamestown, colonial national historical park : slavery and freedom in British North America -- 2. The Old State House : Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre -- 3. Kingsley Plantation : race and family in Spanish Florida -- 4. The African meeting house : platform for a community -- 5. The old courthouse : Dred Scott, the Supreme Court, and the struggle for freedom -- 6. Harpers Ferry National Historic Park : allies for freedom -- 7. Cedar Hill, Frederick Douglass national historic site : home of the Black sage of nineteenth-century America -- 8. Nicodemus national historic site : in search of a promised land -- 9. Sweet Auburn historic district : a haven in a hostile world -- 10. The Apollo Theater : Harlem's stage of dreams -- 11. USS Arizona Memorial : race and war in paradise -- 12. Brown v. Board of Education national historic site : the Supreme Court and public education -- 13. The F.W. Woolworth building, downtown Greensboro historic district : the start of the student sit-in movement.

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Subject:

African Americans > History.
African Americans > History > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Monuments.
African Americans > Monuments > Juvenile literature.
Historic sites > United States.
Historic sites > United States > Juvenile literature.
United States > History, Local.
United States > History, Local > Juvenile literature.

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