Julia Pferdehirt: 2 books
Blue Jenkins
Working for Workers
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
When William "Blue" Jenkins was only six months old, he moved with his parents from a Mississippi sharecropper’s farm to the industrial city of Racine, Wisconsin with dreams of a new life. As an African-American in the pre–civil rights era, Blue came face to face with racism: the Ku...
by Julia Pferdehirt
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
On July 4th, 1842, Caroline Quarlls left family, friends, and the only life she'd known behind in St. Louis, Missouri. As the child of a slave mother and a slave-owner father, her young life was one of drudgery and obedience until that fateful Independence Day when she illegally took a steamboat across...