Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus) by Gates Jr, Henry Louis

Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781338262049)

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Format: Hardcover
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Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus) by Gates Jr, Henry Louis

Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)

$19.99
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus) by Gates Jr, Henry Louis

Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)

$19.99
Format: Hardcover
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow segregation.

This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will come face-to-face with the people and events of Reconstruction's noble democratic experiment, its tragic undermining, and the drawing of a new "color line" in the long Jim Crow era that followed. In introducing young readers to them, and to the resiliency of the African American people at times of progress and betrayal, Professor Gates shares a history that remains vitally relevant today.

Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr, Tonya Bolden
ISBN-10: 1338262041
ISBN-13: 9781338262049
Publisher: Scholastic Focus
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2019
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.7
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 500321 / Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow


Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 02/01/2019
School Library Journal 11/01/2018 pg. 92
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2018
Booklist 01/01/2019 pg. 58
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory
By Henry Louis Gates Jr
By Henry Louis Gates Jr
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Tonya Bolden is the award-winning author of many notable books for children and young adults, among them the Coretta Scott King Author Honor-winning Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl, which was also a James Madison Book Award Winner and CCBC Best Book of the Year. Ms. Bolden's Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty was named a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year and is the recipient of the Carter G. Woodson Book Award. Ms. Bolden is a two-time NAACP Image Award nominee, and Winner of the 2016 Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC's Nonfiction Award for Body of Work.
Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard. He is an acclaimed author and critic who has unearthed literary gems. He also has produced, written, and hosted an array of documentary films for public television, including Africa's Great Civilizations, Finding Your Roots, Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise, and The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Gates is the recipient of 55 honorary degrees and numerous prizes. A member of the first class awarded "genius grants" by the MacArthur Foundation in 1981, he was, in 1998, the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. In addition, he was named to Time's 25 Most Influential Americans list in 1997, Ebony's Power 150 list in 2009, and Ebony's Power 100 list in 2010 and 2012.

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