Now Is Your Time!: The African-American Struggle for Freedom

by Walter Dean Myers

Overview

History has made me an African American. It is an Africa that I have come from, and an America that I have helped to create.

Since they were first brought as captives to Virginia, the people who would become African Americans have struggled for freedom. Thousands fought for the rights of all Americans during the Revolutionary War, and for their own rights during the Civil War. On the battlefield, through education, and through their creative genius, they have worked toward one goal: that the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness be denied no one.

Fired by the legacy of men and women like Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, Ida B. Wells, and George Latimer, the struggle continues today. Here is African-American history, told through the stories of the people whose experiences have shaped and continue to shape the America in which we live.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780064461207
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/28/1992
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	213,385
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Table of Contents

Introduction		ix
The Land		1	(10)
Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima		11	(17)
The Plantation Society		28	(8)
To Make a Slave		36	(8)
The United States of America!		44	(9)
James Forten		53	(11)
We the People...		64	(7)
To Be a Slave		71	(13)
Fighting Back		84	(13)
George Latimer		97	(13)
The Dred Scott Case		110	(7)
John Brown		117	(13)
Secession		130	(9)
The Bower		139	(14)
We Look Like Men of War		153	(15)
Fort Wagner		168	(13)
The First Taste of Freedom		181	(14)
Ida B. Wells		195	(21)
Lewis Howard Latimer		216	(14)
The Battle in the Courts		230	(5)
Meta Vaux Warrick		235	(15)
Brown vs. Board of Education		250	(9)
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Modern Civil Rights Movement		259	(13)
Afterword		272	(3)
Author's Note		275	(3)
Select Bibliography		278	(4)
Index		282