Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century

by Linda Tarrant-Reid

Book Overview

Discovering Black America offers readers an unprecedented account of more than 400 years of African American history set against a background of American and global events. The book begins with a black sailor aboard the Ni a with Christopher Columbus and continues through the colonial period, slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and civil rights to our current president in the White House. Including first-person narratives from diaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810970988
• ISBN13: 9780810970984
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.9" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7