Now is Your Time!: the African-American Struggle for Freedom
Walter Dean Myers
Published by HarperCollins, 1991. Softcover. LIKE NEW.
Portrays the quests of individual Africans against the background of broader historical movements. Instead of a comprehensive, strict chronology, Myers offers, through freed slave Ibrahima, investigative reporter Ida Wells, artist Meta Warrick Fuller, inventor George Latimore, artist Dred Scott, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, and others, history at its best—along with deeper understanding of past and contemporary events
