Freedom Walkers

Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823421954

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Freedom Walkers by Russell Freedman Pdf

A riveting account of the civil rights boycott that changed history by the foremost author of history for young people. Now a classic, Freedman’s book tells the dramatic stories of the heroes who stood up against segregation and Jim Crow laws in 1950s Alabama. Full of eyewitness reports, iconic photographs from the era, and crucial primary sources, this work brings history to life for modern readers. This engaging look at one of the best-known events of the American Civil Rights Movement feels immediate and relevant, reminding readers that the Boycott is not distant history, but one step in a fight for equality that continues today. Freedman focuses not only on well-known figures like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr., but on the numerous people who contributed by organizing carpools, joining protests, supporting legal defense efforts, and more. He showcases an often-overlooked side of activism and protest-- the importance of cooperation and engagement, and the ways in which ordinary people can stand up for their beliefs and bring about meaningful change in the world around them. Freedom Walkers has long been a library and classroom staple, but as interest in the history of protest and the Civil Rights Movement grows, it’s a perfect introduction for anyone looking to learn more about the past-- and an inspiration to take action and shape the future. Recipient of an Orbis Pictus Honor, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, and the Jane Addams Peace Association Honor Book Award, Freedom Walkers received five starred reviews. A map, source notes, full bibliography, and other backmatter is included.

Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-20
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429948210

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Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose Pdf

"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.'" – Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history. Claudette Colvin is the 2009 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature and a 2010 Newbery Honor Book.

Author : Frédéric Gros
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781804290446

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A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros Pdf

This “passionate affirmation of the simple life” explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Gandhi and Nietzsche (Observer) “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” —Nietzsche In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B—the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble—and reveals what they say about us. Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.

Author : Ann Bausum
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426307287

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Unraveling Freedom by Ann Bausum Pdf

In 1915, the United States experienced the 9/11 of its time. A German torpedo sank the Lusitania killing nearly 2,000 innocent passengers. The ensuing hysteria helped draw the United States into World War I—the bitter, brutal conflict that became known as the Great War and the War to End All Wars. But as U.S. troops fought to make the world safe for democracy abroad, our own government eroded freedoms at home, especially for German-Americans. Free speech was no longer an operating principle of American democracy. Award-winning author Ann Bausum asks, just where do Americans draw the line of justice in times of war? Drawing thought-provoking parallels with President Wilson’s government and other wartime administrations, from FDR to George W. Bush, Bausum’s analysis has plenty of history lessons for the world today. Her exhaustive research turns up astonishing first-person stories and rare images, and the full-color design is fresh and stunning. The result is a gripping book that is well-positioned for the run-up to the World War I centennial. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.

Author : Kerri Andrews
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789143430

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Wanderers by Kerri Andrews Pdf

Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing—of being—articulated by ten pathfinding women writers. “A wild portrayal of the passion and spirit of female walkers and the deep sense of ‘knowing’ that they found along the path.”—Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path “I opened this book and instantly found that I was part of a conversation I didn't want to leave. A dazzling, inspirational history.”—Helen Mort, author of No Map Could Show Them This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson’s daughter Elizabeth Carter—who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England—to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury. Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing—of being—articulated by these ten pathfinding women.

Author : Danielle Walker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781936608362

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Against All Grain by Danielle Walker Pdf

Offers recipes for a paleo diet, including Spanish frittata with chorizo, Korean beef noodle bowls, and lemon vanilla bean macaroons.

Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Holiday House Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015066878904

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Freedom Walkers by Russell Freedman Pdf

Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses.

Author : Kara Elizabeth Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0966013905

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Freedom by Kara Elizabeth Walker Pdf

"The future vision of a soon-to-be emancipated 19th century Negress."--Prelim. leaf.

Author : Antonia Malchik
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780738220178

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A Walking Life by Antonia Malchik Pdf

For readers of On Trails, this is an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we've designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential that we reembrace it. "I'm going for a walk." How often has this phrase been uttered by someone with a heart full of anger or sorrow? Or as an invitation, a precursor to a declaration of love? Our species and its predecessors have been bipedal walkers for at least six million years; by now, we take this seemingly arbitrary motion for granted. Yet how many of us still really walk in our everyday lives? Driven by a combination of a car-centric culture and an insatiable thirst for productivity and efficiency, we're spending more time sedentary and alone than we ever have before. If bipedal walking is truly what makes our species human, as paleoanthropologists claim, what does it mean that we are designing walking right out of our lives? Antonia Malchik asks essential questions at the center of humanity's evolution and social structures: Who gets to walk, and where? How did we lose the right to walk, and what implications does that have for the strength of our communities, the future of democracy, and the pervasive loneliness of individual lives? The loss of walking as an individual and a community act has the potential to destroy our deepest spiritual connections, our democratic society, our neighborhoods, and our freedom. But we can change the course of our mobility. And we need to. Delving into a wealth of science, history, and anecdote -- from our deepest origins as hominins to our first steps as babies, to universal design and social infrastructure, A Walking Life shows exactly how walking is essential, how deeply reliant our brains and bodies are on this simple pedestrian act -- and how we can reclaim it.

Author : David Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : African American authors
ISBN : UOM:69015000003166

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Walker's Appeal in Four Articles by David Walker Pdf

Author : Fiona Shaw
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338277524

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Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw Pdf

In this tense, page-turning story of survival in near-future England, Jacob must go to all lengths to find his dog and escape to freedom with a gang of rebel children. In a frighteningly real near future England, Jacob escapes from the Academy orphanage to reenter a world that is grimly recognizable. The Coalition can track anyone, anywhere, from a chip implanted at birth. Now Jacob must fulfill his promise to his parents, find his dog, Jet, and navigate his way out of England. Their only hope is a band of children who have found a way to survive off the grid: The Outwalkers. Their rules are strict, but necessary if they're going to get out alive...

Author : Blair Murphy Kelley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807833544

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Right to Ride by Blair Murphy Kelley Pdf

Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride<

Author : Kenneth M. Hare
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African American civil rights workers
ISBN : 9781596700109

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They Walked to Freedom by Kenneth M. Hare Pdf

This book features interviews with participants, dozens of photographs from the time, and key historical documents, chronicling the Montgomery Bus Boycott that set the stage for the modern Civil Rights Era.

Author : R. Conrad Stein
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0516446975

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The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by R. Conrad Stein Pdf

Traces the events in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott which began in December, 1955, and changed the course of the civil rights movement.

Author : Ben Page
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9798887620077

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Healing Trees by Ben Page Pdf

Take a walk in the woods to find yourself. This book is intended as an easy approach to forest bathing, a concept that is now making its way into health and wellness practices. Part spiritual guide and part practitioner’s handbook, this accessible, practical, positivity-rich book is designed to be taken on every walk to encourage mindfulness, contentedness, and presence in the moment. Written in a beautiful, encouraging style by a highly qualified and mediagenic author, the book also contains amazing hand-drawn illustrations of forest scenes.