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Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope -- and help -- came in the from of the Underground...
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Contains free-flowing text and the work of thirteen award-winning artists to present a poetic history of the civil rights movement. Profiles ten African Americans who contributed to the struggle for equality and then passed the baton on to the next person including Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, Barack Obama, and Ella Fitzgerald.
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