Title: Jackie Robinson Author: David A. Alder Copyright date: 1989 The setting begins in 1919, when Jackie Robinson was born near Cairo, Georgia. At the time it was bad to be black in Georgia. It was bad because Georgia was a slave state and Abraham Lincoln did not sign the emanci...

• Word Count: 314
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Booker's Uprising of the Former Slaves The book, Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington is about Booker T.'s life as a freed slave directly before and a while after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. Washington was able to make changes in society regarding the black race during his life time...

• Word Count: 689
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He is writing it on a particularly important day in racial history, the 100th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation in which US President Abraham Lincoln declared that black slaves were now legally free. ...

• Word Count: 1135
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School