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Book

Stories of the spirit of justice

Call Number

  • J 323.1196 TISB (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW, WSQ)

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Publication Information

Grand Rapids, MI : Zonderkidz, [2025]

Physical Description

xvi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Audience

Grades 3-6.

Summary

We are living in the Civil Rights Movement of our day. But the challenges of the present call us to remember the past. Throughout American history, there has always been a small but resilient group of people who, motivated by their faith, resisted oppression and pushed for greater equality and liberty for all. From well-known figures like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman, to those time has nearly forgotten, all of these people tapped into an abiding spirit of justice to pursue the dignity of all people.

Contents

  • Author's note
  • Introduction: The spirit of justice
  • The colonial era (1492-1765). Anthony, Isabella, and William ; John Punch ; Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa
  • The Revolutionary era (1765-1783). Mum Bett/Elizabeth Freeman ; Phillis Wheatley ; Prince Hall ; Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ; Benjamin Banneker
  • The abolitionist movement (1780-1870). Pierre Toussaint Louverture ; David Walker ; Anna Murray Douglass ; Paul Cuffe
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877). Robert Smalls ; The Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth ; Harriet Tubman ; Elizabeth Keckley
  • The Jim Crow era (1877 to late 1960s). Elias Camp Morris ; William J. Seymour ; Anna Julia Cooper ; Charles Hamilton Houston
  • The civil rights era (late 1940s-late 1960s). Ella Baker ; Fannie Lou Hamer ; Martin Luther King Jr. ; Coretta Scott King ; Anna Arnold Hedgeman ; Prathia Hall ; Unita Blackwell ; Dorothy Height
  • The late twentieth century (early 1970s-1999). James Cone ; Shirley Chisholm ; Myrlie Evers-Williams ; Sister Thea Bowman ; Toni Morrison
  • The early twenty-first century (2000-today). The creatives ; The activists ; The ministers
  • Conclusion.

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