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

by Walter Dean Myers

Book Overview

A Coretta Scott King Award winner that is more timely than ever--excellent narrative nonfiction that's history at its best.* Like Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States, Now Is Your Time explores American history through the stories of the people whose experiences have shaped and continue to shape the America in which we live.

History has made me an African American. It is an Africa that I have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064461203
• ISBN13: 9780064461207
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Amistad Books for Young Readers
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 5.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher

Customer Reviews

Should be required reading

One purpose for the writing of this book, "Now is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom" is to fill the need for a readable and accessable text book on African-American History for children. I've used the book to teach my own child about the struggle for freedom faced by those of African descent as well as a stepping stone in teaching about oppression in the local school system. The book does an admirable job of showing the over all climate of Early America and doesn't gloss over any of the harsher realities of slavery. This book also highlights many of the key people in the struggle for freedom and civil rights. I believe this book to be one of a kind and necessary reading for all who wish to grow in their own understanding.