Picture the American past

Author

Arnold, Caroline Littlefield, Holly Coombs, Karen Mueller King, Wilma Welch, Catherine A Whitman, Sylvia

1) Children of the settlement houses

Author

Arnold, Caroline

2) Children of the trail west

Author

Littlefield, Holly

3) Children of the dust days

Author

Coombs, Karen Mueller

Language

English

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Focuses on the experiences of children during the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, when prolonged drought, coupled with farming techniques, caused massive erosion from Texas to Canada's wheat fields.

4) Children of the emancipation

Author

King, Wilma

Language

English

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Juneteenth for All Ages

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Explains how the nearly four million slaves and nearly half a million free blacks gained freedom and basic rights as citizens, following Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

5) Children of the relocation camps

Author

Welch, Catherine A.

6) Immigrant children

Author

Whitman, Sylvia

7) Children of the civil rights era

Author

Welch, Catherine A

Language

English

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Recounts the courageous involvement of many young people who marched, protested, were arrested, and risked their lives to end racial discrimination in the South during the 1950s and 1960s.

8) Children of the Indian boarding schools

Author

Littlefield, Holly

9) Children of the World War II home front

Author

Whitman, Sylvia