Linda Barrett Osborne

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1) Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years

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Osborne, Linda Barrett

Publisher

Abrams Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

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Linda Barrett Osborne shows the day to day experiences of African Americans in the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, a time of a deeply divided racially segrated United States of America. The information gleaned from photographs and interviews shows an America who used the labor and military service of a previously enslaved people but refused equality or recognition of that which was evident. The author presents a painful and powerful...

2) Come on in, America: the United States and World War I

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Osborne, Linda Barrett

Publisher

Abrams Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

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World War I Collection Spotlight - Books for Children
World War I Collection Spotlight - Essentials [Youth]

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On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and joined World War I. German submarine attacks on American ships in March 1917 were the overt motive for declaring war, but the underlying reasons were far more complex. Even after the United States officially joined, Americans were divided on whether they should be a part of it. Americans were told they were fighting a war for democracy, but with racial segregation rampant in the United...