America's Black Founders

Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities

Nancy I. Sanders

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN:
  9781613741214
• Edition: 1

Celebrating the lesser known but significant lives and contributions of our nation's early African American leaders, this multicultural complement to most children's books on the American Revolution covers a wide spectrum of subjects, including military, art, religion, and science. Weaving the histories of dozens of men and women—soldiers, sailors, ministers, poets, merchants, doctors, and other community leaders—to properly recognize them among the founders of the United States of America, this text gives a better sense of what these individuals accomplished and the times in which they lived. Activities include celebrating Constitution Day, cooking colonial foods, publishing a newspaper, petitioning their government, and more. This valuable resource also includes a time line of significant events, a list of historic sites to visit or explore online, and Web resources for further study.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Time Line
• 1 “When in the Course of Human Events…” Colonial Days
• 2 “It Becomes Necessary for One People to Dissolve the Political Bands…” Years of Unrest
• 3 “We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident…” Beginnings of War
• 4 “That All Men are Created Equal…” The American Revolution
• 5 “That They are Endowed by Their Creator with Certain Unalienable Rights…” African Americans as Citizens
• 6 “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness…” African Americans Lead the Way
• Afterword
• Resources