A history of America's most famous statue, discussing how it was built and why it was given to the United States.From School Library JournalGrade 2-5 A straightforward account of the people and ideas which inspired Bartholdi's arduous battle to make the Statue of Liberty a reality. The book's many black-and-white photographs and prints are effectively dramatic. The paper is of high quality, and the layout and design are superb. Included is information about vital statistics and a plan of repairs. The index is thorough and makes this an excellent book for beginning researchers. It is comparable to two other books, both entitled The Statue of Liberty , one by William E. Shapiro (Watts, 1985), the other by Leonard E. Fisher (Holiday, 1985). However, it has the advantage of being shorter and more manageable for younger readers. As is usual with Haskins' efforts, it is well-written and accurate, but it does lack the liveliness of Coerr's Lady with a Torch (Harper, 1986). Huck Scarry's drawings make Mary J. Shapiro's How They Built the Statue of Liberty (Random, 1985) a more valuable choice, as she includes all the information offered here as well. For introducing this topic to very young children, the Maestros' The Story of the Statue of Liberty (Lothrop, 1986) is a lovely picture book. Deborah Vose, Brooklyn Friends School LibraryCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The Statue of Liberty

Politics & Social Sciences

Jim Haskins

Social Sciences

HARCOURT, BRACE

These insightful biographies highlight men and women who have struggled to overcome adversity to accomplish their goals. Along the way, these inspiring people have blazed a trail through history.

Space Challenger: The Story of Guion Bluford

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt HMH

I Have a Dream

Millbrook Pr Trade

An introductory history to the underground railroad weaves together personal stories, historical material, and letters by the individuals who provided assistance along the dangerous path to freedom. Reprint.

Get on Board: The Story of the Underground Railroad

History

Scholastic Paperbacks

Black Eagles : African Americans in Aviation

Teen & Young Adult

Perfection Learning

The Civil Rights Chronicle recounts the details and drama of the American civil rights movement, the decades-long struggle for equality for all people. This comprehensive, 448-page book primarily focuses on the years 1954 through 1968, while also documenting the radical shift in the movement after the 1960s as well as significant civil rights issues up to the present day. Written by noted scholars, the chronicle offers: A foreword by Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of former NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in 1963. A 1,200-item timeline that marks significant points along the battle for civil rights, from the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision to the assassination of movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Essays describing 26 watershed events, such as the Montgomery bus boycott, crisis at Little Rock High School, sit-ins, and freedom rides. Decade-overview essays that give readers a big picture perspective, including the impact of the Depression on African Americans in the 1930s to the rolling back of affirmative action in the 1980s. More than 80 sidebars on such subjects as Thurgood Marshall, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, letter from a Birmingham jail, and the black power salute at the 1968 Olympics. More than 20 first-hand accounts from those directly involved in the civil rights struggle, including Rosa Parks and Little Rock student Elizabeth Eckford. More than 900 photographs that visually tell the story of the African American struggle for civil rights, such as images of the Birmingham church bombings and the March on Washington. The Civil Rights Chronicle is part of Legacy Publishing s historical series.

Civil Rights Chronicle (The African-American Struggle for Freedom)

Clayborne Carson

Myrlie Evers-Williams

Mark Bauerlein

Todd Steven Burroughs

Ella Forbes

Americas

Publications, International, Ltd.

Voodoo and Hoodoo tells how these spiritual descendents of African medicine men and sorcerers lay tricks and work their magic and explains the hold these practices have had on their believers, from their Old World origins until today.

Voodoo and Hoodoo: The Craft as Revealed by Traditional Practitioners

Religion & Spirituality

Scarborough House

When a small company dedicated to doing things differently decided some twenty years ago to make as natural a tobacco product as possible, they turned to America's tobacco farmers and proposed an unheard of proposition: How about growing organic tobacco?
 Today, demand for organic tobacco leaf is doubling each year. But when it was first proposed, there were more than a few skeptics. Now, many are looking at the growing practices and sustainable farming techniques developed by this small group of pioneers.
 Here's the colorful history behind this new old way of farming. Organic Tobacco Growing in America is a quintessential American story of applying vision and values to innovation. More than just a practical guide on how and why to embrace organic growing, this is a story that stretches from its American Indian-inspired beginnings in the windswept high desert of northern New Mexico to the fabled tobacco roads of the southeast.
 Along the way, meet the growers who learned how organic farming of not just tobacco, but vegetables and other produce as well, is returning the principles of nature back to the family farm. This is a story about the rebirth of a lifestyle--a way of life that once was and now is meant to be again--for a world that yearns for sustainable, earth-friendly farming.

Organic Tobacco Growing in America and Other Earth-Friendly Farming

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

MARK SMITH

Fielding, Daniel

Mike Little

Gardening & Landscape Design

Sunstone Press

James Van Derzee: The Picture Takin' Man

A biography of the black photographer who has received acclaim for his prints of Harlem.

Children's Books

Africa World Pr

THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT is A TRUE RAG TO RICHES AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY. Hal Jackson is a founder, owner and Group Chairman of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, the largest privately held Black-owned broadcasting network in the nation, which includes: WBLS-FM 107.5 and WLIB in New York City, as well as fifteen other radio station outlets in major markets and cable television stations throughout the United States. Hal Jackson and his wife Debi B. Jackson host the HJ "Sunday Classics" on WBLS (8:00A.M. - 4:00P.M.), a #1 rated show in New York City on Sunday, which has been the number one (1) FM weekend radio program nationwide for over a decade. During his broadcasting career, Harold "Hal" Jackson has made numerous contributions to the African-American community. As an icon and an activist, Hal rose to the pinnacle of his profession by becoming one of the nations leading entertainment and broadcasting industry executives. Hal Jackson is the first African! -American inducted into the Broadcast Hall of Fame, the first African-American inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, a National Association of Black-owned Broadcasters honoree, and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Hal Jackson has been the executive producer and host of the Hal Jacksons Talented Teens International Scholarship Competition (HJTTI) for more than thirty years, created through his Youth Development Foundation, Inc. to "inspire leadership for the future." This scholarship competition for young women with its local, regional and international programs has touched over 30,000 young ladies, helping to develop socially conscious young women as leaders, professionals and entertainers. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT is about a remarkable man, whose determination and vision would make him one of the most significant figures in American radio and television history.

The House That Jack Built

Biographies & Memoirs

Harold Jackson

Arts & Literature

Colossus Books

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