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This book provides a resource that introduces readers to Indian removal and resistance, focusing specifically on the Trail of Tears and the experiences of the Cherokee Nation while also covering earlier events and the aftermath of removal. This book offers the most current perspectives, incorporating key issues of assimilation, sovereignty, and Cherokee resistance and resilience throughout.

Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.

"'The Charlottesville Protests' delves into the eruption of violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. It also examines the racial strife that's plagued the United States for decades and encourages readers to form their own opinions"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Seminole Indians. Includes a color section on their crafts.

"Tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members to take part in organized protests and direct actions ensured that local libraries would become genuinely free to all citizens"--OCLC.

This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will come face-to-face with the people and events of Reconstruction's noble democratic experiment, its tragic undermining, and the drawing of a new "color line" in the long Jim Crow era that followed. In introducing young readers to them, and to the resiliency of the African American people at times of progress and betrayal, Professor Gates shares a history that remains vitally relevant today.

Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft accepts her estranged grandmother's six-figure bribe to live with her for a year and to participate in the debutante season and ball, in order to possibly meet the father she has never known. As she endures makeovers, big dresses, and fancy balls, she finds unexpected friendship with the other debutantes who have scandalous, dangerous secrets of their own.

"[Presents the biography of Hernando de Soto.] In the 1500s, Hernando de Soto traveled throughout Central America and Peru, as well as the southeastern areas of the United States, in search of treasures and land for Spain. Although he may have had Spain's best interests at heart, de Soto and his expedition left a deadly trail of disease in their wake. De Soto would never find the rumored riches he sought. But he did discover the Mississippi River"--Provided by publisher.

Reviews the history of the Trail of Tears, during which the United States government forced thousands of Cherokee west of the Mississippi. Includes illustrations, a time line, quotations from historical figures, side-bars, and more.