The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch

by Chris Barton and Don Tate

Book Overview

A unique biography of a remarkable Reconstruction figure John Roy Lynch spent most of his childhood as a slave in Mississippi, but all of that changed with the Emancipation Proclamation. Suddenly people like John Roy could have paying jobs and attend school. While many people in the South were unhappy with the social change, John Roy thrived in the new era. He was appointed to serve as justice of the peace and was eventually elected into the United...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080285379X
• ISBN13: 9780802853790
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.1" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5