Reconstruction - 8 SS - Civil Rights - LibGuides at The American School of Doha

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Sharecroppers
Freedman's bureau
Ku Klux Klan
Carpet baggers
13th Ammendment
14th Ammendment
15th Ammendment
Jim Crow
Black Codes
Plessy vs. Fergusson
Separate but Equal

Books in Our Library

Traveling the Freedom Road by Linda Barrett Osborne
Call Number: 973.7 OSB
ISBN: 0810983389
Publication Date: 2009-02-01
From the perspective of those who lived through a time of pain, strife, and hope. Told through unforgettable first-person accounts from slave narratives, journals, diaries, and other sources.

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Brotherhood by Anne Westrick
Call Number: F WES
ISBN: 0670014397
Publication Date: 2013-09-12
By day, fourteen-year-old Shadrach apprentices with a tailor and sneaks off for reading lessons with Rachel, a freed slave, at her school for African-American children. By night he follows his older brother Jeremiah to the meetings of a group whose stated mission is to protect Confederate widows like their mother. But as the true murderous intentions of the group, now known as the Ku Klux Klan, are revealed, Shad finds himself trapped between old loyalties and what he knows is right.
American Portraits by Jabari Asim
Call Number: F ASI
ISBN: 0809206250
Publication Date: 2001-02-12
After Union soldiers set ten-year-old Ezra Taplin and his father free from their North Carolina plantation, they struggle to find a way to create a new life for themselves in the newly emancipated South.