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by: Walter Dean Myers
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.0496073
EAN: 9780064461207
ISBN: 0064461203
Label: Amistad
Manufacturer: Amistad
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: December 01, 1991
Publisher: Amistad
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: January 30, 1992
Sales Rank: 530667
Studio: Amistad
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Product Description:
History has made me an African American. It is an Africa that I have come from, and an America that I have helped to create.
Since they were first brought as captives to Virginia, the people who would become African Americans have struggled for freedom. Thousands fought for the rights of all Americans during the Revolutionary War, and for their own rights during the Civil War. On the battlefield, through education, and through their creative genius, they have worked toward one goal: that the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness be denied no one.
Fired by the legacy of men and women like Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, Ida B. Wells, and George Latimer, the struggle continues today. Here is African-American history, told through the stories of the people whose experiences have shaped and continue to shape the America in which we live.
Notable Children's Books of 1992 (ALA)
1992 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)
1992 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
1992 Coretta Scott King Author Award
1991 Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book (NCTE)
1991 Golden Kite Award Honor Book for Nonfiction (SCBW)
Children's Books of 1991 (Library of Congress)
1992 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
1992 Carter G. Woodson Book Award Outstanding Merit Book (NCSS)
1992 Jane Addams Children's Honor Book Award
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Should be required reading
One purpose for the writing of this book, "Now is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom" is to fill the need for a readable and accessable text book on African-American History for children. I've used the book to teach my own child about the struggle for freedom faced by those of African descent as well as a stepping stone in teaching about oppression in the local school system. The book does an admirable job of showing the over all climate of Early America and doesn't gloss over ... Read More
Rating:  - Now is your time review
The book Now is your time was about the African American Struggle for freedom. It was broken down into many stories of the african struggle for their freedom. Each story seemed to build up to like the greatest thing an abolitionist did for African freedom. The whole book through and through was collections of stories about african freedom and miny facts about african culuture. It showed how they are very religious and used many African songs to silently keep with their African culture roots. I liked ... Read More
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