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Kenya's song
For homework Kenya has to choose her favorite song, but there are so many different kinds of music in her community that she has a hard time deciding.
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Rising Above Slavery
\"Harriet Tubman...is remembered as a hero for leading others to freedom. Tubman was one of many enslaved people who never learned how to read or write. Others wrote down much of her story, but parts have been lost. No one knows exactly how she escaped.\" (Highlights for Children) Learn how Harriet Tubman helped others escape from slavery.
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Rising Above Slavery
Trice features abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Today, Tubman is remembered as a hero for leading others to freedom. Tubman was one of many enslaved people who never learned how to read or write. Others wrote down much of her story, but parts have been lost. No one knows exactly how she escaped. She went back to Maryland and led a total of about 70 people to freedom. She told others how to escape, and about 60 of them succeeded. Tubman worked for freedom in other ways too. By 1861, new laws that limited slavery helped lead to the American Civil War between many slaveholding states (the Confederacy) and mostly free states (the Union).
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Benjamin Banneker and His Amazing Clock
\"Until he was about 20 years old, Benjamin Banneker had never seen a watch or clock. Born in 1731 in Maryland (one of 13 colonies ruled by England), he worked as a farmer and lived by sunrise and sunset. He didn't need to know the exact time. One day, he saw a watch and was fascinated with it. Today, no one knows whose watch it was, but he borrowed it and studied how it worked. Then, he built a clock!\" (Highlights for Children) Read more about Benjamin Banneker.
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Benjamin Banneker and His AMAZING Clock
Trice features Benjamin Banneker. Born in 1731 in Maryland (one of 13 colonies ruled by England), he worked as a farmer and lived by sunrise and sunset. He didn't need to know the exact time. One day, he saw a watch and was fascinated with it. Today, no one knows whose watch it was, but he borrowed it and studied how it worked. Then, he built a clock. He whittled gears and most other working parts out of wood. For the few metal parts he needed, he used iron or brass. What a clock it was! Not only did it tell the time, but its bell rang every hour. People traveled miles to see Banneker's clock. They were impressed by the young Black man who created it. At the time, most Black people in the colonies were slaves. Banneker and his family were free. He was educated at a time when few people of any race knew how to read or write. And at the age of 22, he had designed and built a working clock without having a single lesson or book on the subject.
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Painting hope
An article for children discusses Jacob Lawrence. Lawrence is an African American painter who grew up in Harlem NY. One of his paintings, \"Moving Day,\" is presented.
Magazine Article
The image of the idealized Negro woman in pre -Harlem Renaissance Afro-American novels
The sex roles of Americans are in flux. The Women's Liberation Movement has questioned the image of the traditional housewife. The high rate of divorce has led to multitudinous single parent households, some of which are headed by men. Women are delaying marriage and child bearing in favor of their pursuit of careers, some of which are in fields which were formally male dominated. The Civil Rights movement has opened doors to Negroes in the areas of housing, education and employment, leading to a more integrated society. Thus some black parents who grew up in a segregated society fear that their children might accept materialistic values of white American society, and lose their own culture. In the midst of these social issues, the dilemma of the black woman has arisen. Numerous books were written during the 1970s about the black woman, mostly about her anguish and her poor relations with the black man. Some concerned themselves with a recitation of early black heroines, but a few questioned the life style and the image of the black woman during earlier eras. Many black women are challenging the images set before them. They are seeking to define themselves for themselves, not by black men and not by white American society. And they wish that definition to be seen as positive by the rest of society. By examining the way the black woman was portrayed by novelists of the past, contrasting that with her history and her present condition, today's black woman can create her own model. One step in this process would be the study of her image in the Afro-American novels written before the Harlem Renaissance. Those writers portrayed the best of black society and frequently their image of the black woman was an idealized one—she was a woman of epic proportions. A true heroine, she was neither the typical nor the average black woman, but one whom the author would like the women of his race to emulate and aspire to. The purpose of this study then is to define and explore this idealized woman. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Dissertation
Mother Is in Med School
Picture the Farmington mother of two--young, blonde, vivacious, active. She is busy planning a new home that she will move into next month, playing golf, swimming and rooting for her sons' Little League team. What does she do in her spare time? This mother is a full-time sophomore at the University of...
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