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Quick view Black Tuesday and the Great Depression by Natalie Hyde Black Tuesday and the Great Depression explores the causes of the stock market crash in 1929 and the resulting Great Depression. For more than ten years the effects of October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday, were felt not only in North America, but... View Details
Quick view The Great Depression by Robin Johsnon This engaging title begins with a recount of the events of October 29, 1929, better known as “Black Thursday”, to mark the dawn of the Great Depression era. Readers will discover the causes of the depression, its affect on people across North America,... View Details
Quick view The Life of W.E.B. Du Bois: Civil Rights Champion by Mark Rowh Author, activist, scholar, outspoken W.E.B. Du Bois was the leading voice for justice and civil rights in the United States in his time. Born soon after the Civil War, Du Bois believed that educated African Americans must lead their people. He used his... View Details
Quick view Booker T Washington: Great American Educator by Eric Braun In graphic novel format, tells the life story of Booker T. Washington and his accomplishments toward promoting the education of African Americans. View Details
Quick view Emancipation by Molly Aloian This title takes us behind the scenes into president Abraham LincolnÂ’s decision to end slavery 150 years ago. View Details
Quick view I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery by Cynthia Grady This rich and intricate collection of poems chronicles the various experiences of American slaves. Drawn together through imagery drawn from quilting and fiber arts, each poem is spoken from a different perspective: a house slave, a mother losing her... View Details
Quick view I, Dred Scott: A Fictional Slave Narrative Based on the Life and Legal Precedent of Dred Scott by Sheila P Moses Born into slavery in Virginia in the late 1700s, Dred Scott had little to look forward to in life. But he was fortunate in two ways: His first owner was fairly kind to him, and he grew up with his owner's children, forming friendships that he would come... View Details
Quick view The Last Days of the Confederacy in Northeast Georgia by Ray Chandler In 1861, northeast Georgians were the driving force into secession and war. In 1865, Confederate president Jefferson Davis, his government collapsing and himself a wanted man, brought the reality of the war to the region's doorstep. Governor Joseph... View Details
Quick view Civil War Atlanta by Robert Scott Davis Prior to the Civil War, Atlanta was at the intersection of four rail lines, rendering the Georgia crossroads the fastest-growing city in the Deep South. As the Confederate States formed, Atlanta was a city deeply divided about secession. By the spring of... View Details
Quick view The US Civil War and Reconstruction by Brian Howell This book follows a student who is helping set up a museum exhibit about the Civil War. The student uses primary sources and artifacts to learn about the causes of the war, the hardships of the war, and how the war concluded. View Details
Quick view The Battle of the Allatoona Pass: Civil War Skirmish in Bartow County, Georgia by Brad Butkovich In the 1840s, engineers blasted through 175 feet of earth and bedrock at Allatoona Pass, Georgia, to allow passage of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. Little more than twenty years later, both the Union and Confederate armies fortified the hills and... View Details
Quick view The Southern Railway by Sallie Loy The Southern Railway was the pinnacle of rail service in the South for nearly 100 years. Its roots stretch back to 1827, when the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company was founded in Charleston to provide freight transportation and America's first... View Details
