Frederick Douglass: Civil Rights Leader: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)

Frederick Douglass: Civil Rights Leader: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)
Author: Amanda Mitchison
Publisher: Collins Educational
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-14
Genre: African American abolitionists
ISBN: 9780007465491

Antislavery campaigner, author, diplomat and political statesmen, Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest men of his age. A former slave himself, Frederick fought publicly against slavery and was an inspiration in the fight for social and political change. Written by Amanda Mitchison, find out about this life-long battle to fight for equality. * Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. * Text type: A biography * Curriculum links: History, Citizenship

What's Your Story, Frederick Douglass?

What's Your Story, Frederick Douglass?
Author: Jody Jensen Shaffer
Publisher: Lerner Classroom
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467796476

Cub reporter uses his interviewing skills to reveal Frederick's story and his accomplishments as a civil rights activist and how he led the fight for equality in the United States.

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass
Author: Alice Fleming
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2003-08-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780823966240

A biography of the runaway slave who became an abolitionist, an orator and writer, and a crusader for women's rights.

Frederick Douglass American Hero

Frederick Douglass American Hero
Author: Connie A. Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781436318464

This is a complex and comprehensive literary about a Black American hero, a story never told before as it has been in this book. Previous authors and historians have not portrayed Frederick Douglass as an American hero who greatly influenced American History. Frederick Douglass was one of the most dynamic and influential individuals during the nineteenth century. He crusaded for the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which were all ratified during his lifetime. He was a friend of President Abraham Lincoln and an adviser to President Lincoln during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Frederick Douglass taught himself how to read and write and became a very brilliant individual as an orator, a writer and entrepreneur. He is the father of the original Civil Rights Movement in America as he fought for the civil rights and voting rights for women and Blacks.

The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglas (An African American Heritage Book)

The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglas (An African American Heritage Book)
Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Start Classics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-03-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Here in one omnibus edition are all three of Frederick Douglass' landmark autobiographies. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written. This classic did as much as or more than any other book to motivate the abolitionist to continue to fight for freedom in American. Frederick Douglass was born a slave he escaped a brutal system and through sheer force of will educated himself and became an abolitionist editor orator author statesman and reformer. This is one of the most unlikely and powerful success stories ever written. In Frederick Douglass' autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom we can see the power of literacy and belief. Douglass transforms himself from slave to an abolitionist journalist orator and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the American civil rights movement with little more than force of will. His breadth of his accomplishments gave hope to generations of people who came after him in their fight for civil rights. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the reception of his work. It is also the only of Douglass' autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War including his encounters with American Presidents such as Lincoln Grant and Garfield

Shark Girl

Shark Girl
Author: Kelly Bingham
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0763654477

A teenager struggles through physical loss to the start of acceptance in an absorbing, artful novel at once honest and insightful, wrenching and redemptive. (Age 12 and up) On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything -- absolutely everything -- changed. Now she’s counting down the days until she returns to school with her fake arm, where she knows kids will whisper, "That’s her -- that’s Shark Girl," as she passes. In the meantime there are only questions: Why did this happen? Why her? What about her art? What about her life? In this striking first novel, Kelly Bingham uses poems, letters, telephone conversations, and newspaper clippings to look unflinchingly at what it’s like to lose part of yourself - and to summon the courage it takes to find yourself again.

Habeas Viscus

Habeas Viscus
Author: Alexander Ghedi Weheliye
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2014-08-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822376490

Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This disciplining, while not biological per se, frequently depends on anchoring political hierarchies in human flesh. The work of the black feminist scholars Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter is vital to Weheliye's argument. Particularly significant are their contributions to the intellectual project of black studies vis-à-vis racialization and the category of the human in western modernity. Wynter and Spillers configure black studies as an endeavor to disrupt the governing conception of humanity as synonymous with white, western man. Weheliye posits black feminist theories of modern humanity as useful correctives to the "bare life and biopolitics discourse" exemplified by the works of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, which, Weheliye contends, vastly underestimate the conceptual and political significance of race in constructions of the human. Habeas Viscus reveals the pressing need to make the insights of black studies and black feminism foundational to the study of modern humanity.

Miles

Miles
Author: Miles Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1990-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0671725823

Miles discusses his life and music from playing trumpet in high school to the new instruments and sounds from the Caribbean.

National Geographic Readers: Frederick Douglass (Level 2)

National Geographic Readers: Frederick Douglass (Level 2)
Author: Barbara Kramer
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2017-01-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1426327587

Discover the world of one of America's most celebrated abolitionists, writers, and orators in this inspirational biography of Frederick Douglass. Kids will learn about his life, achievements, and the challenges he faced along the way. The Level 2 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for independent readers.