Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Smith, Kimanne.
2. Schomburg Children's Collection.
3. Joyce B. Dinkins Children's Collection.

Description

1. 64 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.

Summary

1. Describes the life of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, nineteenth-century educator, writer, newspaper editor, and civil rights worker who was the first African-American woman to enter law school or to publish a newspaper.

Series statement

1. A creative minds biography

Subject

1. African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century > Juvenile literature
2. Educators > Canada > Biography > Juvenile literature
3. African American women civil rights workers > Biography > Juvenile literature
4. Free African Americans > Biography > Juvenile literature
5. Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893 > Juvenile literature
6. Civil rights workers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
7. Newspaper editors > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature

Contents

1. Growing up -- Saying what she thinks -- Canada -- A terrible year -- A newspaper of her own -- Change and more change -- A different world, a new life.

Call number

1. Sc D 04-1315

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62) and index.

Author

1. Ferris, Jeri.

Title

1. Demanding justice : a story about Mary Ann Shadd Cary / by Jeri Chase Ferris ; illustrated by Kimanne Smith.

Imprint

1. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c2003.

Series

1. A creative minds biography

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62) and index.

Added author

1. Smith, Kimanne. Illustrator
2. Schomburg Children's Collection.
3. Joyce B. Dinkins Children's Collection.

LCCN

1. 2002006815

ISBN

1. 157505177X (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. Sc D 04-1315