Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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2004., PowerKids Press Call No: 304 SIO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of immigration and migration in AmericaSummary Note: Provides a brief history of slavery in the United States, and discusses the migration of African-Americans to other parts of the country after the Civil War.
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c2016., Juvenile, Rosen Pub. Group Call No: 973 .0496073 Click here to access this interactive ebook Summary Note: "The history of African Americans in the United States is one fraught with discrimination and immense brutality, but also with strength and a determined spirit. In this book, readers learn the history of African American migration in North America, which is a topic supported by elementary social studies curricula. Readers will understand the push/pull factors involved in African American migration from the South and into Northern cities and the cultural developments that followed. Topics such as slavery and segregation are explained through age-appropriate language. Historical photographs and primary sources encourage readers to visualize history"--Provided by the publisher.
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2000., Pre-adolescent, Benchmark Books Call No: 978 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great journeysSummary Note: Describes the economic and environmental conditions that led to the Great Depression and the horrific dust storms that drove people from their homes westward during the 1930s.
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2000., Pre-adolescent, Benchmark Books / Marshall Cavendish Call No: 973.916 MEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great journeysSummary Note: Describes the economic and environmental conditions that led to the Great Depression and the horrific dust storms that drove people from their homes westward during the 1930s.
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1999, Juvenile, Twenty-first Century Books Call No: 973 .0496073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discusses the conditions of African Americans in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, and the migration of many former slaves, led by such men as Benjamin Singleton and Henry Adams, to the West looking for a better life.
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2006., PBS Home Video Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At the end of 1853, San Francisco was a city on the move. It had twelve daily newspapers, nine insurance companies, consulates of twenty-seven foreign governments, and six-story buildings where sand dunes once stood. A few years earlier, San Francisco was just a sleepy little town. But the sight of gold in the rushing waters of the American River sent a ripple around the world and set the stage for an event that would forever change a city, a fledgling state, and the nation. Incorporating rare and exquisite daguerreotypes and original recreations, this film offers a vivid portrait of a seminal event in American's history.
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2004., Juvenile, PowerKids Press Primary Source Call No: 307.76 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of immigration and migration in AmericaSummary Note: This book describes the industrialization of nineteenth-century America, the movement of people from rural areas to cities, and the arrival of immigrants settling in cities.
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2004., PowerKids Press Call No: 305.1 SIO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of immigration and migration in AmericaSummary Note: Explores immigration, migration, and the growth of the American city and includes information about factory towns, early working conditions, child labor, unions, and the railroad industry.
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2004., Juvenile, PowerKids Press Primary Source Call No: 330.973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of immigration and migration in AmericaSummary Note: This book describes how inventions such as the cotton gin transformed America from an agricultural country to an industrial one.
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2004., PowerKids Press Call No: 330 SIO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of immigration and migration in AmericaSummary Note: Describes how inventions such as the cotton gin transformed America from an agricultural country to an industrial one, and led to both problems and opportunities.
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2004., Primary, PowerKids Press Call No: 330.973 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of immigration and migration in AmericaSummary Note: Describes how inventions such as the cotton gin transformed America from an agricultural country to an industrial one, and led to both problems and opportunities.
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2008., Juvenile, Weigl Publisher Call No: 973 DE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African American historySummary Note: Black-and-white photographs and text discuss the social history between slavery and the civil rights movement, and cover legal discrimination, the Ku Klux Klan, Booker T. Washington, the NAACP, race riots, Harlem, military service during the World Wars, and more.
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2004., PowerKids Press Call No: 973.04 SIO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of immigration and migration in AmericaSummary Note: Explores the early migration of Native Americans and includes information about the formation of the United States, the Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears, Battle of Little Bighorn, and Indian reservations.
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2000., Benchmark Books / Marshall Cavendish Call No: 973.01 HAS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great journeysSummary Note: Uses the experiences of two individuals, Ada "Bricktop" Smith and Joe Jones, to present the story of the Great Migration of Southern Blacks to northern cities from the late 1800s to the years after World War I.
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2011., Vintage Books Call No: 304.8 WIL Edition: 1st Vintage Books e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
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-- America's great migration[2010]., Random House Call No: HISTORY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the decades-long migration of African-Americans who fled the South for northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970, discussing how they altered the cities of America and the African-American community.
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c1999., Juvenile, Crabtree Pub. Co. Call No: 978 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discusses the reasons people migrated West, the routes they took, some of the difficulties faced by pioneers, the different ethnic and cultural backgrounds of the settlers, and the building of homes and towns.