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In Search of The Heroes

Type: VHS
Author:
( Black History , Civil rights , Education , General , History , Mark Twain , Social Justice , Women's History , Youth )

In Search of The Heroes is an Emmy Nominated Series: Go back in time a meet our heroes from the past. People who helped to make America the great nation that it is today.

Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly

Type: BOOK
Author: Fleischner, Jennifer
( Friendship , General , History , Slavery , Social action , Women's History )

Social Action: This remarkable story of the friendship between a First Lady and a former slave provides new insight into race, women's lives, and american society in the nineteenth century. It is a vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the antibellum South and the Civil War. Historian Jennifer Fleischner's riveting work of scholarship reveals the legacy of slavery and sheds new light on the Lincoln White House, bringing to life a mesmerizing, intimate aspect of Civil War history...

Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly

Type: BOOK
Author: Fleischner, Jennifer
( African American , Friendship , General , History , Slavery , Social action , Women's History )

Social Action - The remarkable story of the friendship between a First Lady and a former slave.A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the antibellum South and the Civil War. Historian Jennifer Fleischner provides a riveting work of scholarship that reveals the legacy of slavery and sheds new light on the Lincoln White House. This work challenges much of what we think and know about nineteenth-century American color consciousness.

The Woman's Suffrage Movement: The Susan B. Anthony Story

Type: VHS
Author:
( Civil rights , Education , General , Social Justice , Women's History )

This is the story of Susan B. Anthony, a courageous woman and her role in the early women's rights movement. We will meet Susan through the eyes of a young girl from our own time - a young girl who feels her life is a "lost cause".