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Now Is Your Time! The African American Struggle For Freedom (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

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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.

The book Now is your time was about the African American Struggle for freedom. It was broken down into many stories of the african struggle for their freedom. Each story seemed to build up to like the greatest thing an abolitionist did for African freedom. The whole book through and through was collections of stories about african freedom and miny facts about african culuture. It showed how they are very religious and used many African songs to silently keep with their African culture roots. I liked all the different stories that showed the African struggle for freedom and how if you fight and never give up you will accomplish your goal. What I did not like was after all the stories it just listed out a bunch of facts and facts. It just got too textbooky and it just got me out of interest with the book and I started rushing just to finish the book so I could just get it overwith. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes anything about history and the loads and loads of facts that go with it. It is also for people who like good stories for inspiration in their own life. Overall I would say this book was alright with the good stories about African struggle but find some way to do away with the useless facts that seemed to be listed one right after the other.