America's Black Founders
Revolutionary Heroes and Early Leaders
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, [2010]
Format: Book
Description: 150 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Celebrates the lesser-known lives and contributions of early African-American men and women, in a volume that features such complementary activities as recipes for colonial foods and advice for petitioning the government.
Contents:
When in the course of human events : colonial days : stuff a straw mattress : weave a fanner -- It becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands : years of unrest : make a stamp : draw a political cartoon -- We hold these truths to be self-evident : beginnings of war : pen a patriotic poem : write a new verse for "Yankee Doodle" -- That all men are created equal : the American Revolution : design a flag : read the Declaration : bake firecakes : explore your family tree : cook pepper pot soup : make homemade salt -- That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights : African Americans as citizens : paint a historic picture : celebrate Constitution Day : map a capital city : write a government official : organize a helpful event : write a petition -- Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness : African Americans lead the way : craft a clay pot : form a literary society : publish a newspaper.
Subjects:
African American leadership -- History -- 18th century -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs -- Juvenile literature.
African American leadership -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
African American leadership -- History -- 19th century -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- History -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs -- Juvenile literature.
African American leadership -- History -- 18th century -- Juvenile literature.
African American leadership -- History -- 18th century -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs -- Juvenile literature.
African American leadership -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
African American leadership -- History -- 19th century -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- History -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs -- Juvenile literature.
African American leadership -- History -- 18th century -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
1556528116 (pbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C HISTORY US Culture San | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C HISTORY US Culture San | Edgewood | Children's NonFiction | Out (Due: 5/28/2024) |
C HISTORY US Culture San | St. Andrews Indoors | Display, Children's NonFiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139) and index.