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

By Walter Dean Myers

Book Overview

In 1619 European traders first brought captured Africans to Virginia to provide the cheap labor that would bring prosperity to the South and tragedy to the nation. Newbery Honor winner Walter Dean... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590464000
• ISBN13: 9780590464000
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

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.