Biddy Mason Speaks Up
- ISBN-10
- 1597144037
- ISBN-13
- 9781597144032
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Fighting for Justice
- Authors
- Laura Atkins, Arisa White
Description
Presents the life of a California ex-slave, nurse, and midwife, who started many philanthropic projects.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Bridget "Biddy" Mason: From Slave to Businesswoman
By Jean Kinney WilliamsA biography of the slave who won her freedom in a California courtroom, and bought a house that she used to help people in need as an ex-slave, nurse, and midwife, who started many philanthropic projects.
-
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
By Laura Atkins, Stan YogiIncludes excerpts from the book Fred Korematsu Speaks Up and a lesson plan.
-
Biddy Mason: Becoming a Leader
By Lorin DriggsThis book connects to California state studies standards and the NCSS/C3 Framework and features appropriately leveled text to accommodate different reading levels.
-
Who's Your Daddy?
By Arisa WhiteLiterary Nonfiction.
-
African American Women of the Old West
By Tricia Martineau Wagner... Ariz., 68, 70, 73, 75 Oregon/Mormon Trail, 4 Oregon Territory, 78,80-84 Oregon Trail, 44, 78, 86 Owens, Charles, 6-7, 9, 10 Owens, Henry, 10 Owens, Minnie, 6 Owens, Robert, 6 Owens, Robert Curry, 10-11 p Pepper, Manuel, 6 Perkins, ...
-
You're the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened
By Arisa White"Angular, smart, and fearless, Arisa White's newest collection takes its titles from words used internationally as hate speech against gays and lesbians, reworking, re-envisioning, and re- embodying language as a conduit for art, love, and ...
-
Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century
By Elisabeth Bronfen, Misha Kavka" As evidenced in the essays compiled here, the multiplicity of directions available to this new feminism ranges from poststructuralist academic theory through cultural activism to re-readings of law, literature, and representation.
-
Sled Dog Dachshund
By Laura Atkins"When Jasper the dachshund hears about the world's biggest dog sled race in Alaska, he just knows he can win. And when his family goes to watch the race, he decides to enter"--Back cover.
-
Chains
By Laurie Halse AndersonWhen her owner dies at the start of the Revolution, a greedy nephew keeps Isabel and her younger sister enslaved and sells them to Loyalists in New York, where Isabel is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots.
-
Red, White, and Black: Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers
By Robert L. Woodson, Sr.Rejecting this false narrative, a collection of the most prominent and respected black scholars and thinkers has come together to correct the record and tell the true story of black Americans in all its complexity, diversity of experience, ...