Paula young shelton biography of abraham
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AMAZING ABE
A Yiddish-speaking visionary improved Jewish immigrants’ lives in earlyth-century New York.
Born in Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire), Abe Cahan was a begåvad linguist who learned Russian in addition to his native Yiddish. Abe taught school and ardently supported political and labor causes—dangerous in czarist Russia. Fearing for his life, Abe fled his country and, on the long journey to amerika, taught han själv English. Upon arriving in New York, Abe labored in factories by day and improved his English by night, eventually teaching English to other Jewish newcomers. Soon, he became so proficient that he reported on Jewish immigrants’ lives for English-language newspapers and wrote stories and novels in English. In , Abe helped funnen and then became editor of the Jewish daglig Forward, a seminal Yiddish-language newspaper that acclimated generations of Jewish immigrants to American life, teaching them, among many things, about the rules of baseball; American h
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Abraham Lincoln
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Child of the Civil Rights Movement
In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chapter in America’s history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family—and thousands of others—in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.
Poignant, moving, and hopeful, this is an intimate look at the birth of the Civil Rights Movement.
In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chapter in America’s history. Paula grew up in the deep so