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Ffrench, Robert, 1959-
Subjects
Slavery -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Black Canadians -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Canada -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Ffrench, Robert, 1959-
Slavery -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Black Canadians -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Canada -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Out of the past, into the future : [an introductory learning guide] / written by Robert Ffrench ; illustrated by Henry V. Bishop.
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Ffrench, Robert, 1959-
Pride Communications, c1994.
Call #:
920
F4371o
Subjects
Slavery -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Black Canadians -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Canada -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Series
African Canadian achievement ; bk. 1
ISBN:
9780969835004 (pbk.)
Description:
60 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Notes:
Companion volume: In our time.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Forced migration (slavery) -- Mattieu da Costa -- Black Loyalists -- The Maroons -- War of 1812 -- The profile of Africa (Maxine Tynes)-Poem -- Escape from Slavery -- William Hall -- Colonel William Bluck -- No.2 Construction Battalion -- Mary Ann Shadd -- Reverend Samuel Ringgold Ward -- Henry Bibb -- John Ware -- Reverend Richard Preston -- Harriet Tubman -- Josiah Henson -- Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott -- Elijah McCoy -- Marcus Garvery -- Mifflin Gibbs -- Alfred Shadd -- William Hubbard -- Rose Fortune -- Victoria Pioneer Rigle Company -- Portia White -- Harry Jerome -- George Dixon -- Sam Langford -- Family -- When Black and White See Eye to Eye (Maxine Tynes)-Poem -- If you see truth (Lillian Allen)-Poem -- We are the future(Lillian Allen)-Poem
Summary:
Through interviews and learning activities, gives information on the contributions of Black Canadians, including: William Hall, the first Canadian Seaman to win the Victoria Cross; Harry Jerome, an outstanding Canadian athlete and citizen; Rose Fortune, the first policewoman in North America; Mary Ann Shadd, a lawyer, editor, writer and publisher; Elijah McCoy, the "Real McCoy" inventor.
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920 F4371o
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Children's Black Nonfiction
920 F4371o
Childrens Books
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Local History Collection
920 F4371o
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Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor
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Children's Black Nonfiction
920 F4371o
Childrens Books
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