Description This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history\'s most pivotal and misunderstood chapters.
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..
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Woodson Book Award.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Gates is the recipient of 55 honorary degrees and numerous prizes.
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 .
He is an acclaimed author and critic who has unearthed literary gems. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard.
About the author Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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.
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.
Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation .
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.
Description This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history\'s most pivotal and misunderstood chapters
